Poaceae FAMILY
Cenchrus prieurii
Cenchrus prieurii
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Cenchrus prieurii is an annual, occasionally perennial grass with decumbent or tufted, ascending culms growing up to 75cm 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 harvested from the wild for local use of its edible seed.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeNorth Africa - Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and southern Algeria to Sudan and Ethiopia; through Arabia to Pakistan and India.
HabitatSandy, waste 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/ ]. Open, sandy locations at elevations up to 1,000 metres[ 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. ].