- Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
(Pipewort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Eriocaulaceae
- Synonym(s) : Eriocaulon dianae Fyson; Eriocaulon dianae var. longibracteatum Fyson; Eriocaulon heterolepis var. nigricans Körn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Eriocaulon heterolepis Steud.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Paddy fields and marshy areas in plains
- Comments / notes : Submerged except head of the peduncle
- Flower, Fruit : June-January
- Collection Nos : HFP 1311, CJS 12300
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Raichur district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Bhandara district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Satara district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Sambalpur district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Native : India, Jawa
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Jawa
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eriocaulon heterolepis. Downloaded on 8 October 2024.
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