- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Fuirena ciliaris (L.) Roxb.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands and paddy fields and dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Often on hills above 250m, sometimes gregarious in perennially moist ground, river banks, fallow fields or as a weed in arable lands.
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 15/11/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-220
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Bhandara district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tiruvallur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district
- World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Southeast Asia, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- 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
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- 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
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Fuirena ciliaris. Downloaded on 5 October 2024.
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