Poaceae FAMILY

Eragrostis atrovirens

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eragrostis atrovirens is a variable, clump-forming, perennial grass without rhizomes or stolons; it produces slender, unbranched culms up to 1 metre tall. The plant produces a good carpet of growth[ 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 as a local source of thatch.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical and subtropical areas of Africa; E. Asia - China, Indian subcontinent, Myanmar, through southeast Asia to the Philippines, New Guinea,Solomon

HabitatDambo and floodplain grassland, and swampy grassland, often in shallow water, at elevations up to 1,600 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. ].