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Andropogon africanus Franch | |
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Graminae Common names: Andropogon |
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| Description Tufted perennial 50-250 cm high. Leaf-blades 10-40 cm long and 2-7 mm wide. Inflorescence a loose false panicle made up of paired racemes, these 3-4 cm long. Internodes and pedicels filiform and ciliate. Spikelets 4-7 mm long arranged loosely on the racemes. The sessile spikelets with a 5-25 mm long geniculate awn from the lemma. The pedicelled spikelet with or without an awn up to 6 mm long. Habitat Seasonally flooded grassland. Altitude range 1300 m and higher elsewhere. Distribution Kenya; also from United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo to Mauritania. Use Grazed when young but of low palatability at maturity. |
 Andropogon africanus |
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