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Brachiaria leucacrantha (K. Schum.) Stapf | |
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Graminae Common names: Brachiaria leucacrantha |
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| Description Tufted annual, 10-40 cm high, often prostrate and rooting at nodes. Leaf-blades flat softly pubescent, 2-10 cm long and 2-6.5 mm wide. Inflorescence of 3-8 racemes on an axis 2-7 cm long; racemes 1-5 cm in length with a triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets pubescent, elliptic 4-5 mm long, caudate with longer tuft of hairs on each side of the midnerve of upper glume and lower lemma, containing a stipe about 0.5 mm long. Habitat Bushland, often on poor sandy soils. Altitude range 0-1500 m. Distribution Kenya; also from Uganda, United republic of Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique. Use Of low to medium grazing value but useful in dry areas where other grazing grass is scarce. Similar Species Brachiaria xantholeuca in habit, but that species has merely acute and not aristulate spikelets. |
 Brachiaria leucacrantha |
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