- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Agrostis compressa (Sw.) Poir.; Echinochloa compressa (Sw.) Roberty; Milium compressum Sw.; Paspalum compressum (Sw.) Raspail; Paspalum laticulmum Spreng.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.
- Common name : Carpet Grass, Broad-leaved carpetgrass, Buffalo Grass
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Grasslands, also in paddy fields
- Comments / notes : Popularly known as Carpet grass. Often on hills above 1000m
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 21/06/1969
- Collection Nos : CJS 13872
- Collection Locality : Mankanahalli, Bisle, Hassan district
- 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 : Tamil Nadu (On the hills)
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Alabama, Argentina, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hon
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- 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
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 275
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Axonopus compressus. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.
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