Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Axonopus > A. compressus

Description: Perennials. Culms creeping or stoloniferous, rooting at nodes; nodes bearded. Leaves oblong to linear-lanceolate, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margins ciliate, apex acute; sheaths keeled; ligules membranous, fimbriate. Racemes 2-6, binate, digitate or alternate on stalk, 2-10 cm long; rhachis trigonous. Spikelets oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, sessile or shortly pedicelled, green or purplish. Lower glume absent. Upper glume ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-7-nerved. First lemma ovate, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, membranous, 5-nerved, epaleate. Second lemma ovate-oblong, crustaceous, faintly 3-5-nerved, bearded at apex. Palea oblong, margins infolded. Floret bisexual. Stamens 3; anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Ovary c. 0.5 mm, oblong; styles 0.5 mm; stigmas white.

Flowering and Fruiting: Throughout the year

Uses: used as a turf and forage in the humid tropics and subtropics

Cultivation: Wild.

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org