- 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) : Cyperus alternifolius var. flabelliformis (Rottb.) M.R.Almeida; Cyperus involucratus Rottb.; Cyperus alternifolius var. albovariegatus Anon.; Cyperus alternifolius var. petersianus (Boeckeler) Kük.; Cyperus alternifolius variegatus Veitch ex J.Dix; Cyperus flagellatus Hochst.; Cyperus gradatus Forssk.; Cyperus petersianus Boeckeler; Cyperus proximus Steud.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus alternifolius subsp. flabelliformis Kük.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Plains, Grown as ornamental plant
- Comments / notes : Cultivated, introduced and naturalized in India
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district
- Odisha : Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania,
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 3
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyperus flabelliformis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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