Tachula / Glutene-Rice Grass
Apluda mutica
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Tachula
Identify Tachula by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Tachula.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Apluda mutica
- Genus
- Apluda
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous and scrub forests, also in plains and wastelands
- Distribution
- Arabia and Socotra; throughout Tropical Asia, Pakistan, India, Australia and New Caledonia
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Kerala, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Manipur, Telangana, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Poaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tachula itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Tachula, Tachhila, Pongta
- Kannada
- Akku hullu, Kaadu hanchi hullu
About Tachula
Glutene-rice Grass (Apluda mutica) is a herb in the Poaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam and 21 other states. It grows in moist deciduous and scrub forests, also in plains and wastelands. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Tachula belongs to the Poaceae family.
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