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Andropogon heterantherus Stapf | |
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Graminae Common names: Andropogon |
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| Description Straggling perennial 60-210 cm high with wiry culms much branched above. Leaf-blades flat, linear lanceolate 3-15 cm long and 3-7 mm wide, rounded at the base, without auricles but with a membranous ligule up to 1.2 mm long. Inflorescence of paired racemes or rarely 3 racemes terminal on the culm branches, racemes l.2-5 cm long. Internodes and pedicels clavate, inflated above, shiny and partly ciliate at both margins. Sessile spikelets glabrous 5.5-6.5 mm long, lower glume narrowly lanceolate, depressed between the keels, awn of lemma 9-12 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets glabrous, lanceolate, 5-5.5 mm long, acute to mucronate. Habitat Coastal swampy spots on clay under sand. Altitude range 0-100 m. Distribution Kenya; also in United Republic of Tanzania. Use Eaten by cattle and goats. Similar Species Andropogon canaliculatus in inflorescence type but that species has erect culms. |
 Andropogon heterantherus |
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