Poaceae FAMILY

Brachiaria villosa

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Brachiaria villosa is a creeping annual grass producing a single culm or a loose tuft of culms; it can grow 10 - 50cm 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 harvested from the wild for local use as a food, often only being used in times of need.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Senegal to Djibouti, south to Gabon and Uganda; E. Asia - China, Japan, India, through tropical Asia to New Guinea

HabitatWaste places and disturbed soils[ 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/ ]. Mountain or hill slopes, fields, roadsides, other weedy or grassy places[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].