• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.
• Common name : Carpet Grass, Broad-leaved carpetgrass, Buffalo Grass
• Vernacular name : Kaalappullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and grasslands, also in paddy fields
• Comments / notes : Popularly known as Carpet grass. Often on hills above 1000m
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district
  • Tamil Nadu : On hills above 1000m.
• World Distribution : Tropics and sub-tropics
• Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Axonopus compressus. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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