Botanical Name - Oplismenus compositus

----- Oplismenus, Beau. V.B.I.V.7.P. 66. Oplismenus compositus. Beau; (Syn. O. undulatifolius.) Vern. Kodi juttu gaddi, Konda anthrica gaddi (Tel).

----- A perennial, erect, branching grass, culms about 3 ft., slender, creeping below. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate 4 in. long. thin flat, dark green, glabrous or hairy, base narrow, auricled on one side; sheaths glabrous or pubescent with celeated margins. Panicles about 10 in. long of distant spreading racemes of spikelets. Spikelets unilateral on the rachis. There is a purple awn on the lower gulme.

----- Very common in Telangana area near the water courses rivers, nallas, streams, and in moist shady places in forest usually in limestone and sandstone area. It is considered to be a good fodder grass.