Poaceae FAMILY
Eragrostis nindensis
Eragrostis nindensis
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Eragrostis nindensis is a herbaceous perennial, clump-forming grass with a short oblique rhizome; the erect, unbranched culms are up to 90cm tall[ 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 sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeAfrica - DR Congo, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, S. Africa.
HabitatGranite sandveld and wooded short grassland, watershed grassland, seasonal or permanently wet dambo grassland; usually in sandy soils, Kalahari Sand and calcareous pans, on rocky outcrops, granite domes and seepage areas over rock, to 2,000 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. ].