- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
- Synonym(s) : Dichostylis cuspidata (Kunth) Palla; Cyperus angustifolius Buch.-Ham. ex Nees; Cyperus angustifolius Schumach.; Cyperus capitatus Retz.; Cyperus contractus Steud.; Cyperus cuspidatus f. angustifolius Kük.; Cyperus cuspidatus var. burchellii C.B.Clarke; Cyperus cuspidatus f. exiguus (Nees) Kük.; Cyperus exiguus Nees; Cyperus gratus C.B.Clarke; Cyperus hamatus Schrad. ex Nees; Cyperus hamulatus Kunth; Cyperus recurvatus Willd. ex Kunth; Cyperus recurvus Vahl; Cyperus salzmannii Steud.; Cyperus setifolius D.Don; Cyperus solutus Steud.; Cyperus uncinatus Poir.; Cyperus uncinatus var. gratus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.; Cyperus waterlotii Cherm.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus cuspidatus Kunth
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Rocky areas in grasslands
- Flower, Fruit : July-November
- Collector(s) Name : D.H.Nicolson, S.S.Hooper, Cecil J. Saldanha, K.N.Gandhi
- Collection Date : 26/10/1971
- Collection Nos : HFP 2347
- Collection Locality : Baourdalboore, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Sindhudurg district, Pune district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Puri district, Bolangir district, Bargarh district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Alabama, Andaman Islands, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 254
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyperus cuspidatus. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.
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