St Thomas Mount Rockgrass
Oropetium thomaeum
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Rajasthan, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- September-December
How to identify St Thomas Mount Rockgrass
Identify St Thomas Mount Rockgrass 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: September-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Telangana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is St Thomas Mount Rockgrass.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Oropetium thomaeum
- Genus
- Oropetium
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- On old walls, roofs and on bare rocky soil
- Habitat type
- Rocky
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
- Found in India
- Telangana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-December
- 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 St Thomas Mount Rockgrass itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
About St Thomas Mount Rockgrass
St Thomas Mount Rockgrass (Oropetium thomaeum) is a herb in the Poaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Rajasthan, Karnataka and 5 other states. It grows in on old walls, roofs and on bare rocky soil. Flowering and fruiting run from September to December.
Poaceae
Grass family
St Thomas Mount Rockgrass belongs to the Poaceae family.
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