Poaceae FAMILY

Hyperthelia dissoluta

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Yellow thatching grass is a tufted perennial grass with culms 1 - 3 metres tall[ 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 often gathered from the wild for local use as thatching material, making baskets etc.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - Mauritania to Ethiopia, south through much of Africa to S. Africa.

HabitatCommon in deciduous bushland and wooded grassland, in fixed dunes, along riverbanks and by roads and in disturbed places, including mining areas contaminated with nickel and molybdenum at elevations from sea level to 1,350 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. ].