Lambi / Broom Grass
Aristida setacea
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Lambi
Identify Lambi 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: Spiny/burr-like.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Lambi.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Aristida setacea
- Genus
- Aristida
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Moist and dry deciduous forests and grasslands, also in the plains
- Native to
- India to Mascarene Islands
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mascarene Islands
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal
- 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
- Spiny/burr-likerecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Lambi itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Lambi, Ludabaru
- Tamil
- Thudappampillu, Ukam, Ucippul
- Kannada
- Dodda hanchi hullu
- Marathi
- Mothi kussal
About Lambi
Broom Grass (Aristida setacea) is a herb in the Poaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and 5 other states. It grows in moist and dry deciduous forests and grasslands, also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Lambi belongs to the Poaceae family.
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