Graminae 

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Description

Tufted perennial, with slender but stiff culms 30-120 cm high ascending from knotty rootstock. Leaf-blades flat, lanceolate 5-15 cm long and 8-20 mm wide. Inflorescence of 2-4 racemes on an axis 3-7 cm long; racemes 2-5 cm in length with a villous triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets sparsely pubescent, elliptic, 7-8.5 mm long, borne in loose pairs (one pair on a long pedicel), with a stipe 0.5-1 mm long.

Habitat

Coastal bushland.

Altitude range

0-30 m.

Distribution

Kenya; not known elsewhere.

Use

Palatable grass.

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.