Species list: Grasses

Approximately 74 species of grasses are known or expected to occur in the Greater Waterberg Landscape:

Andropogon gayanus
Andropogon chinensis
Andropogon schinzii
Anthephora pubescens
Anthephora schinzii
Aristida adscensionis
Aristida congesta
Aristida pilgeri
Aristida stipitata
Aristida effusa
Aristida meridionalis
Aristida rhiniochloa
Aristida scabrivalis
Aristida stipitata
Aristida stipoides
Brachiaria deflexa
Brachiaria eruciformis
Brachiaria malacodes
Brachiaria marlothii
Brachiaria nigropedata
Cenchrus ciliaris
Centropodia glauca
Chloris virgata
Cymbopogon caesius
Cymbopogon plurinodis
Cymbopogon pospischilii
Cynodon dactylon
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Dactyloctenium giganteum
Dichanthium annulatum
Digitaria eriantha
Digitaria seriata
Digitaria velutina
Diplachne fusca
Echinochloa colona
Echinochloa holubii
Enneapogon cenchroides
Enneapogon desvauxii
Entoplocamia aristulata
Eragrostis aspera
Eragrostis bicolor
Eragrostis biflora
Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis dinteri
Eragrostis echinochloidea
Eragrostis gummiflua
Eragrostis jeffreysii
Eragrostis lehmanniana
Eragrostis nindensis
Eragrostis omahekensis
Eragrostis pallens
Eragrostis porosa
Eragrostis rigidior
Eragrostis rotifer
Eragrostis superba
Eragrostis trichophora
Eragrostis viscosa
Fingerhuthia africana
Heteropogon contortus
Hyparrhenia hirta
Hyperthelia dissoluta
Imperata cylindrica
Melinis repens
Microchloa caffra
Monelytrum leuderitzianum
Odyssea paucinervis
Oropetium capense
Panicum coloratum
Panicum kalaharense
Panicum maximum
Panicum novemnerve
Paspalum scrobiculatum
Perotis patens
Pogonarthria fleckii
Pogonarthria squarrosa
Schizachyrium sanguineum
Schmidtia kalahariensis
Schmidtia pappophoroides
Setaria incrassata
Setaria pallide-fusca
Setaria verticillata
Sporobolus festivus
Sporobolus fimbriatus
Sporobolus ioclados
Sporobolus panicoides
Sporobolus pyramidalis
Stipagrostis hirtigluma
Stipagrostis hochstetteriana
Stipagrostis uniplumis
Themeda triandra
Tragus berteronianus
Tragus racemosus
Tricholaena monachne
Trichoneura grandiglumis
Triraphis purpurea
Triraphis ramosissima
Triraphis schinzii
Urochloa bolbodes
Urochloa brachyura
Urochloa oligotricha
Urochloa panicoides
Urochloa trichopus
Willkommia sarmentosa

Source: this list is based on the report Ecological assessment of upgrading the Grootfontein-Otjinene road link, prepared by P. Cunningham.

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