Graminae 

Common names: Sweet Smother Grass, Durban Grass

Description

Stoloniferous perennial with slender erect or geniculately ascending culms 32-80 cm high. Leaf-blades flat, 5-27 cm long, up to 4.5 mm wide, pilose with tubercle-based hairs. Inflorescence of 3-6 ascending spikes each 3.2-5 cm in length. Spikelets 4-6-flowered, 5-5.5 mm long, the stout awn on the upper glume from slightly longer than to about twice as long as the glume; lemma tips long aristulate; anthers 1.3-1.7 mm long; grain 1-1.5 mm long, transversely rugose.

Habitat

Bushland and grassland.

Altitude range

0-870 m.

Distribution

Kenya; also from N.E. United Republic of Tanzania and South Africa.

Use

Not known.

Edited by: F. Guiso Gallisai
Information taken from: Ibrahim, K. M., Kabuye, C. H. S. 1988. An illustrated manual of Kenya grasses. Rome, FAO. 765 pp.