Poaceae FAMILY

Brachiaria comata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Brachiaria comata is a loosely tufted annual grass with weakly ascending culms; it can grow from 20 - 100cm 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 plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food,

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Senegal to Eritrea, south to Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo and Tanzania; Arabian Peinula - Yemen

HabitatCultivated land and waste places[ 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/ ]. Deciduous bushland and in unsettled ground at elevations from 600 - 2,000 metres[ 375 Title Grassland Species - Profiles Publication Author Website http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/Default.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse information on over 650 species of plants that grow in grassland, including trees, shrubs and perennial plants as well as grasses. Gives a brief description of the plant, its range and habitat and some of its uses. ].