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.