Poaceae FAMILY

Diheteropogon amplectens

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Diheteropogon amplectens is a perennial grass growing up to 2 metres tall. The grass grows in small tussocks, often with underground scaly shoots at the base[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use in weaving and thatching.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, DR Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, S. Africa.

HabitatGrassland, often on shallow soils on stony hill slopes, and on poor sandy soils in savannah and deciduous bushland, at elevations up to 1,800 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Open forest, grassland and marshy areas in rocky, sandy and clay soils[ 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. ].