Poaceae FAMILY

Hyparrhenia subplumosa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Hyparrhenia subplumosa is a robust perennial grass with culms 2 - 3 metres tall[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The culms are gathered from the wild for local use as thatching material.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Senegal, south to Angola, east to Tanzania.

HabitatSavannah woodland[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. Growing in Brachystegia woodland, along riverbanks and in dambos at elevations of 1,200 - 1,710 metres[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ].