Leersia hexandra Rice cut-grass, clubhead cut-grass, southern cut-grassPerennial grass with stems up to 120 cm high that grows on fertile soils along watercourses and in swamps in the humid tropics and subtropics throughout the world. Tolerates waterlogging and overgrazing. Palatable when young. Burned to provide dry-season grazing. | | | | | | | As % of dry matter | | | | | | | | DM | CP | CF | Ash | EE | NFE | Ref | | | Fresh, vegetative, Tanzania | 30.0 | 10.1 | 25.6 | 10.4 | 1.8 | 52.1 | 175 | | | Fresh, early bloom, Tanzania | | 5.8 | 28.4 | 16.7 | 2.1 | 47.0 | 476 | | | | | | | | | Hay, India | | | | | 6.3 | 31.4 | 14.9 | 1.5 | 45.9 | " | | | | | | | | | | Digestibility (%) | | | | | | | Animal | CP | CF | EE | NFE | ME | Ref | | | Vegetative | | | Sheep | 69.3 | 60.9 | 33.0 | 71.8 | 2.27 | 175 | | | Early bloom | | | Oxen | | 40.0 | 63.0 | 23.0 | 54.0 | 1.70 | 476 | | | Hay | | | | | Oxen | | 38.0 | 66.0 | 31.0 | 50.0 | 1.72 | " | | | | | |
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