Poaceae FAMILY

Eragrostis amabilis

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eragrostis amabilis is a delicate, loosely clump-forming annual to perennial grass with erect or ascending, mostly unbranched culms up to 50cm 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 is sometimes grown as a lawn and ground cover.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWidely spread in subtropical and tropical areas from Africa through the Indian Ocean and Asia to the Philippines, New Guinea and western Pacific.

HabitatIn sand on river banks, lake-shores and coastal dunes; also in Kalahari Sand and as a weed of disturbed ground and cultivation, at elevations up to 1,160 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. ].