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Oplismenus hirtellus
Also called Basket Grass, Bristle Basket Grass, Woods Grass, Australian Basket Grass, Bristle Basketgrass, Wood Grass
Oplismenus hirtellus, commonly known as basket grass, is a species of flowering perennial plant from the family Poaceae that can be found on every continent in the world except Antarctica, growing mostly in coastal tropic and subtropic regions as well as tropical and subtropical islands such as Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Madagascar.
Burmann's Basketgrass · Running mountaingrass · Oplismenus thwaitesii · Wavyleaf basketgrass · Basketgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oplismenus hirtellus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
