Awned Panick Grass
Oplismenus compositus
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Awned Panick Grass
Identify Awned Panick Grass 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 leaf shape: Lanceolate.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Raceme.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Awned Panick Grass.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Oplismenus compositus
- Genus
- Oplismenus
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded deciduous forests and shady places, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, Telangana
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- LanceolaterecordedLong and narrow, tapering to a point, like a lance head.“The leaves are lanceolate, ovate, are 2–16 centimetres (0.79–6.30 in) long and 8–35 millimetres (0.31–1.38 in) wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Awned Panick Grass itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower arrangement
- RacemerecordedIndividual stalked flowers arranged along a central stem, opening from bottom to top.“compositus have a raceme which is composed from inflorescence.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Awned Panick Grass itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- വട്ടിപ്പുല്ല്
About Awned Panick Grass
A member of the Poaceae family, Awned Panick Grass (Oplismenus compositus) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and 15 other states. It grows in degraded deciduous forests and shady places, also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Awned Panick Grass belongs to the Poaceae family.
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