Poaceae FAMILY

Eragrostis cilianensis

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eragrostis cilianensis is a loosely clump-forming annual grass with erect or ascending, branched or unbrabched culms; it can grow from 15 - 90cm tall[ 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 harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials. It is sometimes used in soil reclamation schemes.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSouthern Europe, through much of Africa, eastern Mediterranean, central and east Asia to Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea.

HabitatDeciduous woodlands; riverine and pan-margin thickets; wooded grassland; granite sandveld; on Kalahari Sand, doleritic, black alluvial turf and clay soils; also in disturbed ground and a weed of cultivation to 1,710m[ 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. ].