Poaceae FAMILY

Eragrostis cylindriflora

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eragrostis cylindriflora is a loosely clump-forming, annual to perennial grass with erect or ascending, branched or unbranched culms up to 75cm 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.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - Ghana, Nigeria, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, S. Afr

HabitatWeedy, overgrazed, grassy 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/ ]. Floodplain, dambo and wooded grasslands, in river bank alluvium and lake-shore sands, in granite sandveld and Kalahari Sands; also in disturbed ground often as a weed of irrigated crops, at elevations to 1,650 m[ 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. ]