Grasses and sedges of Sikkim
243 grasses and sedges on the India list have an open record placed in Sikkim, 2 of them threatened (1 Endangered and 1 Vulnerable) and 3 endemic to India.
A species is in a state when it has an open record placed there: a record anyone can check online (a GBIF record, or a research-grade iNaturalist observation). Threatened: IUCN Red List Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. List of the week of 2026-11-09.
Threatened grasses and sedges of Sikkim (2)
- Poa laxa Mt. Washington Bluegrass EN
- Festuca ovina Sheep's Fescue VU
Grasses and sedges of Sikkim endemic to India (3)
All grasses and sedges of Sikkim on the list (243)
- Agrostis hookeriana
- Agrostis inaequiglumis
- Agrostis micrantha
- Agrostis nervosa
- Agrostis pilosula
- Agrostis ushae
- Andropogon angustatus
- Aniselytron treutleri
- Anthoxanthum flexuosum
- Anthoxanthum hookeri
- Anthoxanthum sikkimense
- Apluda mutica Glutene-rice Grass
- Arthraxon hispidus small carpetgrass
- Arthraxon lancifolius
- Arundinella decempedalis
- Arundinella hookeri
- Arundinella namprikensis
- Arundinella nepalensis Dardy's Oats
- Axonopus compressus broadleaf carpetgrass
- Bambusa balcooa Female Bamboo
- Bambusa multiplex hedge bamboo
- Bambusa pallida
- Blysmus compressus Flat-sedge
- Brachypodium sylvaticum Slender False Brome
- Bromus grandis tall brome
- Bromus himalaicus
- Bromus porphyranthos
- Bulbostylis densa
- Calamagrostis debilis
- Calamagrostis emodensis Garhwal Reedgrass
- Calamagrostis filiformis
- Calamagrostis lahulensis
- Calamagrostis nivicola
- Calamagrostis pseudophragmites coastal small-reed
- Calamagrostis scabrescens
- Calamagrostis tripilifera
- Campeiostachys nutans
- Capillipedium parviflorum Scented Top
- Carex alatauensis
- Carex angusta
- Carex anomoea
- Carex atrata Black Alpine Sedge
- Carex atrofusca scorched alpine-sedge
- Carex baccans Crimson Seeded Sedge
- Carex bhutanensis
- Carex bijiangensis
- Carex bonatiana
- Carex burttii
- Carex capillacea
- Carex cercostachys
- Carex clavispica
- Carex cruciata Cross Sedge
- Carex cruenta
- Carex curticeps
- Carex daltoni
- Carex deasyi
- Carex decora
- Carex esenbeckii
- Carex filicina
- Carex finitima
- Carex fucata
- Carex gracilenta
- Carex haematostoma
- Carex harae
- Carex inanis
- Carex inclinis
- Carex insignis
- Carex japonica
- Carex laeta
- Carex lehmannii
- Carex ligulata ligulate sedge
- Carex longipes
- Carex microglochin bristle sedge
- Carex munda
- Carex myosurus
- Carex olivacea
- Carex parvula
- Carex polycephala
- Carex praelonga
- Carex pseudofoetida
- Carex pseudolaxa
- Carex pulchra
- Carex radicalis
- Carex rara
- Carex remota Remote Sedge
- Carex rochebrunei
- Carex setosa
- Carex speciosa
- Carex stramentitia
- Carex teres
- Carex thomsonii
- Carex tumida
- Carex unciniiformis
- Carex uncinioides
- Carex vesiculosa
- Carex vidua
- Carex wallichiana
- Cenchrus clandestinus Kikuyu Grass
- Cenchrus purpureus napier grass
- Cephalostachyum capitatum
- Cephalostachyum latifolium
- Chrysopogon nodulibarbis
- Cinnagrostis rosea
- Cyathopus sikkimensis
- Cynodon dactylon Bermuda grass
- Cyperus brevifolius Shortleaf Spikesedge
- Cyperus compressus Poorland Flatsedge
- Cyperus cyperinus Old World flatsedge
- Cyperus cyperoides Pacific island flatsedge
- Cyperus diffusus Dwarf Umbrella Grass
- Cyperus haspan Haspan Flatsedge
- Cyperus iria Rice flat-sedge
- Cyperus neochinensis
- Cyperus nutans
- Cyperus papyrus Papyrus sedge
- Cyperus pilosus fuzzy flatsedge
- Cyperus pumilus Annual Flat-sedge
- Cyperus sanguinolentus purpleglume flatsedge
- Cyperus sesquiflorus Fragrant Spikesedge
- Cyperus tenuiculmis
- Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum
- Cyrtococcum patens
- Dactylis glomerata orchard grass
- Dendrocalamus hamiltonii
- Dendrocalamus hookeri
- Dendrocalamus sikkimensis
- Deschampsia cespitosa tufted hair grass
- Deschampsia koelerioides
- Digitaria setigera East Indian crabgrass
- Digitaria stricta
- Drepanostachyum intermedium
- Eleocharis yunnanensis
- Eleusine coracana Finger Millet
- Eleusine indica Goose Grass
- Elymus sikkimensis
- Eragrostis cilianensis stinkgrass
- Eragrostis nigra
- Eragrostis nutans
- Eragrostis tenella Feather Lovegrass
- Eragrostis unioloides Chinese lovegrass
- Eulalia leschenaultiana
- Festuca cumminsii
- Festuca leptopogon
- Festuca ovina Sheep's Fescue VU
- Festuca polycolea
- Festuca tibetica
- Festuca undata
- Festuca valesiaca Valais Fescue
- Festuca wallichiana
- Fimbristylis aestivalis Summer Fimbry
- Fimbristylis complanata Puerto Rico fimbry
- Fimbristylis dichotoma Common Fringe-rush
- Fuirena umbellata Yefen
- Garnotia emodi
- Garnotia stricta blue lawngrass
- Glyceria tonglensis
- Hackelochloa porifera
- Himalayacalamus hookerianus blue bamboo
- Hordeum vulgare Common Barley
- Imperata cylindrica Cogon Grass
- Isachne albens
- Isachne dimyloides
- Isachne globosa Swamp Millet
- Isolepis setacea Bristle-leaf Bulrush
- Koeleria spicata
- Microstegium fasciculatum Bundled Browntop Grass
- Microstegium glabratum
- Microstegium nudum
- Microstegium vimineum Japanese stiltgrass
- Miscanthus nepalensis Himalayan fairy grass
- Miscanthus nudipes
- Muhlenbergia huegelii
- Oplismenus compositus Awned Panick Grass
- Orthoraphium roylei
- Oryza officinalis
- Oryza sativa Asian Rice
- Panicum miliaceum Proso Millet
- Paspalum conjugatum Hilograss
- Paspalum dilatatum Dallis grass
- Paspalum distichum knot grass
- Paspalum scrobiculatum Ditch millet
- Phaenosperma globosum Waterfall Millet
- Piptatherum aequiglume
- Poa alberti
- Poa annua Annual Meadow-grass
- Poa attenuata
- Poa dzongicola
- Poa gammieana
- Poa himalayana
- Poa khasiana
- Poa lachenensis
- Poa laxa Mt. Washington Bluegrass EN
- Poa longii
- Poa mairei
- Poa nemoralis Wood Meadow-grass
- Poa pagophila
- Poa rajbhandarii
- Poa sikkimensis
- Pogonatherum crinitum Poginatherum crinitum
- Pogonatherum paniceum
- Pseudechinolaena polystachya
- Pseudopogonatherum quadrinerve
- Pseudostachyum polymorphum
- Ptilagrostis concinna
- Ptilagrostis dichotoma
- Ptilagrostis mongholica
- Ptilagrostis tibetica
- Ptilagrostis yadongensis
- Saccharum longesetosum
- Sacciolepis indica Indian Cupscale Grass
- Sacciolepis myosuroides Annual Swamp Grass
- Sarocalamus racemosus
- Schizachyrium delavayi
- Schoenoplectiella mucronata Bog Bulrush
- Scirpus ternatanus
- Scleria terrestris
- Setaria forbesiana
- Setaria italica Foxtail Bristle-grass
- Setaria palmifolia Palmgrass
- Setaria parviflora knotroot bristlegrass
- Setaria plicata
- Setaria pumila yellow foxtail
- Shibataea kumasaca Ruscus Bamboo
- Sibirotrisetum scitulum
- Sibirotrisetum sibiricum
- Sinochasea trigyna
- Sorghum bicolor Sorghum
- Stipa capillacea
- Tenaxia cumminsii
- Thamnocalamus spathiflorus Tham
- Themeda caudata
- Themeda hookeri
- Themeda villosa Lyon's grass
- Thysanolaena latifolia Nepalese Broom Grass
- Tripidium arundinaceum
- Tripidium rufipilum
- Tripogon trifidus
- Trisetopsis junghuhnii
- Trisetopsis virescens
- Urochloa ramosa Browntop Millet
- Yushania maling
- Yushania pantlingii
- Zea mays Maize
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Other species of Sikkim
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