Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Oplismenus compositus
pasto de selva, armgrass, basket grass, running mountaingrass, short leafed basket grass
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Oplismenus
Species
compositus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Oplismenus setarius (Lam.) Roem. & Schult; Syn.: Oplismenus setarius (Lam.) Roem. & Schult., Oplismenus rariflorus J. Presl fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Svenson, H.K. (1935) Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galapagos and Cocos Islands). Am. J. Bot. 22: 208-277.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Zuloaga, F.O. Morrone, O. (2003) Oplismenus. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46: 299-303.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Oplismenus compositus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1742. Accessed 31 October 2026.