Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH331 : Cyperus iria L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -

Synonym : Chlorocyperus iria (L.) Rikli.; Cyperus chrysomelinus Link.; Cyperus diaphaniria Steud.; Cyperus iria f. chrysomelinus (Link) Kük.; Cyperus iria f. diaphaniria (Steud.) Miq.; Cyperus iria f. flavescens (Benth.) Domin.; Cyperus iria f. multiflora Domin.; Cyperus iria var. paniciformis C.B.Clarke.; Cyperus iria var. santonici (Rottb.) Fernald & Griscom.; Cyperus iria var. typicus Domin, nom. inval.; Cyperus nangtciangensis Pamp.; Cyperus paniciformis Franch. & Sav.; Cyperus panicoides Lam.; Cyperus resinosus Hochst. ex Steud.; Cyperus santonici Rottb.;

Plant Common Name : Rice Flat Sedge, Iria flatsedge, Moth, Jeku, Jeku Kasa, Jekin Hullu, Jekin Gadde, Chow, Guchen, Mothey, Ochumani, Yanaikkitti

Plant Family : Cyperaceae

Description : Annual Herbs with fibrous roots. The height varies from 8 to 60 cm. The roots are numerous, short and yellowish-red. The culms are tufted, triangular, glabrous, green and 0.6-3.0 mm thick. The leaves are linear-lanceolate, usually all shorter than the culm, 1-8 mm wide, flat, and scabrid on the margin and major ribs; leaf sheaths are green to reddish-brown, membraneous and envelope the culm at the base. The inflorescence is simple or compound, usually open, 1-20 cm long and 1-20 cm wide, with groups of spikes which are either sessile or on 0.5-15.0 cm long peduncles (rays). Inflorescence bracts (involucre) are leafy, three to five (occasionally seven), the lower one longer than the inflorescence, 5-30 cm long, 1-6 mm wide. The spikes are sessile or almost so, elongate, and rather dense. Spikelets are erect-spreading, crowded, 6-24-flowered, 2-13 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm wide, golden to yellowish-green. Glumes are broad-ovate, 1.0-1.6 mm long, golden-brown. There are two or three stamens. The style is 3-branched. The fruit is a small achene (nutlet), 1.0-1.5 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm wide, obovate, triangular in cross section, dark-brown to almost black; the surface is almost smooth.

Plant Location in Melghat : Raipur

Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is astringent, febrifuge, stimulant, stomachic and tonic. It is used to treat amenorrhoea. The whole plant is used to treat rheumatism and to regulate menstruation. The rhizomes are used as a diuretic. A decoction of the ground tubers is used for treating fevers.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: hentriacontanol; cyperene; caryophyllene; beta-cadinene; karacoline; a-cadinol; methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-trans-2; trans-6, cis-9,11-dodecatetrraenoate; methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-trans-2; trans-6, trans-9,11-dodecatetraenoate; methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-11-hydroxy-trans-2; trans-6, trans-9-dode catrienoate; a-pinene; beta-pinene; limonene; p-cymene; linalool; a-copaene; beta-elemene; humulene; a-elemene; beta-selinene; germacrene; calamine; d-cadinene;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Caryophyllene;

Limonene;

P-cymene;

Beta-pinene;

Linalool;

Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Londhe, A.N., Watve, A.V. & Ansari, M.Y. 2002. “Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve”. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 385 to 395 - https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/17501 - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Rice%20Flat%20Sedge.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/243512 - http://www.mpbd.info/plants/cyperus_iria.php

Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 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 iria L.

Cyperus iria L.
Cyperus iria L.
Cyperus iria L.