| Running Mountain Grass |
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| File size | 180964 |
| Original date | 9/20/17 4:35 PM |
| Resolution | 960 x 720 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 2.92mm |
| Exposure time | 1/33s |
| Aperture | 2.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | GiONEE |
| Camera model | M5_lite |
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Botanical name: Oplismenus compositus Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Panicum setarium, Panicum lanceolatum, Oplismenus indicus
Synonyms: Panicum setarium, Panicum lanceolatum, Oplismenus indicus
Running Mountain Grass is a perennial herb with
rambling stems 15-150 cm long. This is a true forest grass and appears
in gregarious patches in open shady places and in glades. The awns are
sticky and the ripe spikelets become attached to passing animals,
thereby distributing the seed. Leaf-blades are narrowly lanceshaped to
narrowly ovate, 2-15 cm long, 8-25 mm wide. Inflorescence are 5-25 cm
long, the lowest raceme 2.5-10 cm long, its rachis hairless to loosely
hairy, the spikelet pairs distant. Spikelets are lanceshaped, 2.5-4 mm
long, hairless to velvet-hairy; glumes with smooth sticky awns, the
longest in each pair of spikelets 3-10 mm. Running Mountain Grass is
found in the HImalayas at altitudes of 300-2800 m, and is wide spread
in several continents. Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Hamirpur ,Himachal Pradesh |
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