Poaceae FAMILY

Brachiaria jubata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Brachiaria jubata is a tufted, evergreen perennial grass with erect culms 25 - 120cm tall[ 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. , 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. It has potential for use in soil stabilization projects.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Senegal to Ethiopia, south to Angola, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, Madagascar.

HabitatValley alluvium, swamp margins, seasonally wet grassland and damp places, often on shallow soils suffering seasonal extremes of drought and water-logging; at elevations from 500 - 2,900 metres[ 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/ , 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. ].