Poaceae FAMILY
Dactyloctenium giganteum
Dactyloctenium giganteum
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Dactyloctenium giganteum is a robust, clump-forming annual grass. The culms are up to 160cm tall (and rarely less than 70cm), erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes rooting from the lower nodes[ 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. ]. The edible seed is sometimes harvested from the wild (usually only in times of shortage) and consumed locally.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeEast tropical Africa - Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, S. Africa.
HabitatUsually found in sandy soils, on Kalahari Sands, in sandy dambos and vleis, and in river-bank sandy alluvium, frequently a weed of irrigated land at low altitudes, and common on disturbed ground at roadsides and in old cultivated fields[ 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. ].