Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH313 : Cyperus rotundus L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 535

Synonym : Chlorocyperus rotundus (L.) Palla; Chorocyperus salaamensis Palla; Cyperus agresti Willd. ex Spreng. & Link; Cyperus arabicus Ehrenb. ex Boeck.; Cyperus bicolor Vahl; Cyperus bifax C.B.Clarke; Cyperus bulbosotoloniferus Mig.; Cyperus comosus Sm.; Cyperus disruptus C.B.Clarke; Cyperus herbicavus Melliss; Cyperus hexastachyos Rottb.; Cyperus hildra Poir.; Cyperus hydra Michx.; Cyperus laevissimus Steud.; Cyperus leptostachyus Griff.; Cyperus merkeri C.B.Clarke; Cyperus micreilema Steud.; Cyperus nubicus C.B.Clarke; Cyperus ochreoides Steud.; Cyperus oliganthus Gand.; Cyperus olivaris O.Targ.Tozz.; Cyperus platystachys Cherm.; Cyperus procerulus Nees; Cyperus pseudovariegatus Boeck.; Cyperus purpureovariegatus Boeck.; Cyperus radicosus Sm.; Cyperus rudioi Boeckeler; Cyperus taylorii C.B.Clarke; Cyperus tetrastachyos Desf.; Cyperus tuberosus Rottb.; Cyperus weinlandii Kuk.; Cyperus yoshinagae Ohwi; Pycreus rotundus (L.) Hayek; Schoenus tuberosus Burm.f.;

Plant Common Name : Nagarmotha, coco-grass, Java grass, nut grass, purple nut sedge or purple nutsedge, red nut sedge, Khmer kravanh chruk, Keyabon, Bara-nagar-motha, Korehi-jhar, Motha, abdahullu, koranari-gadde, karimuttan, kora-kizanna, muttanna, Shembang kouthum, Barik motha, Bimbal, mutha, abhrabheda, ambhodhara, ambuda, korai, korai kilangu, muthakasu, bhadra-tunga-muste, bhadramuste, sad kufi, habu-ul-zillam, nagarmotha

Plant Family : Cyperaceae

Description : a highly variable perennial sedge. Flowering stems are erect, up to 60 cm tall, 3-sided, smooth with swollen bases (basal bulbs). The leaves have a distinct midrib, are linear, usually shorter than the flowering stem, up to 7 mm wide and emerge from a sheath around the shoot base. The inflorescence is a terminal, open umbel subtended by several leafy bracts. Several unequal rays, 2-6 cm long, support 3-8 reddish-brown to purplish-brown, flattened spikelets, 1-2 cm long and 2 mm wide, each with up to 30 glumes, 3.5-4 mm long. Roots are fibrous. Rhizomes are wiry, dark and persistent, connecting a network of daughter shoots and tubers. The tubers are dark brown to black, irregularly shaped and 1-2 cm long when fully grown. Each tuber has an apical bud and several lateral buds. The fruit (often, but erroneously, known as the seed) is a 3-angled achene, 1.5 mm long, dark brown or black.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Stomach problems, treating fevers, digestive system disorders, dysmenorrhea and other maladies. anti-microbial, anti-malarial, anti-oxidant, and anti-diabetic;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: alpha-cyperone; beta-selinene; cyperene; patchoulenone; sugeonol; kobusone; isokobusone; rotundone;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Common%20Nut%20Sedge.html - https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/17506

Reference : ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID :

~ Abeynayake Pemadasa, Jansz Manori, Rajoria Kshpira and Singh Sarvesh Kumar; "Role of Rajayapana basti with reference to Duchenne muscular Dystrophy: A review"; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm. (2016); 7(4): 7-10 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass : Commelinidae
Order : Cyperales
Family : Cyperaceae - Sedge family
Genus : Cyperus L. - flatsedge
Species : Cyperus rotundus L.

Cyperus rotundus L.