Botanical info | A perennial glabrous herb with elongate slender stolons bearing hard black fragrant tubers and triquetrous aerial stems, growing all over India up to 1800 m, leaves narrowly linear, flat, spikelets in compound expanded umbels, glumes imbricate, nut trigonus, obovoid, greyish black |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 824) musta, mn. and(ā), f. a species of grass, Cyperue Rotundus, Kāv., Var., Suśr. (n. prob. the root of Cyperue Rotundus). Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 824) mustaka, m. n. and (ā), f. = musta, Cyperus Rotundus, Var., Suśr., Bhpr.; m. a partic. vegetable poison, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1193) kōrai: Sedges and bulrushes, cyperus
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