Fuirena umbellata Rottboell

 
  • 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) : Fuirena umbellata var. typica Domin; Scirpus fuirena T.Koyama; Scirpus umbellatus (Rottb.) Kuntze; Fuirena appendiculata Peter; Fuirena brachylepis Peter; Fuirena brasiliensis Raddi; Fuirena brasiliensis Palla; Fuirena canescens Vahl; Fuirena capitata Willd. ex Kunth; Fuirena complotricha C.Wright; Fuirena glomerata Lam.; Fuirena guianensis Klotzsch; Fuirena haemaglottis Steud.; Fuirena hildebrandtii Boeckeler; Fuirena mahouxii Cherm.; Fuirena mauritiana Nees ex Kunth; Fuirena mauritiana var. angustifolia Kunth; Fuirena multiflora Peter; Fuirena paniculata L.f.; Fuirena pentagona Wight & Arn. ex Nees; Fuirena pentagona Schumach.; Fuirena philippinensis Gand.; Fuirena quinguangularis Hassk.; Fuirena rivularis Nees; Fuirena seriata C.B.Clarke; Fuirena tereticulmis J.Presl & C.Presl; Fuirena thouarsiana Kunth; Fuirena umbellata var. americana H.Pfeiff.; Fuirena umbellata var. pilosa Domin; Fuirena umbellata var. unguiculata Kük.; Scirpus rivularis D.Don. ex Nees
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Fuirena umbellata Rottb.
  • Common name : Yefen
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Wet and marshy areas and rice fields
  • Comments / notes : Occasional
  • Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
  • Collector(s) Name : P.Sreenath, B.Gurudev Singh; T.P.Ramamoorthy
  • Collection Date : 10-11-1979, 28-01-1971
  • Collection Nos : KFP 10345, HFP 1362
  • Collection Locality : Nagarhole, Kodagu district; Hebbsale, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Hassan district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Cuttack district, Khurda district, Puri district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Islands, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Pantropical
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • 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
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 263
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Fuirena umbellata. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.

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