Setaria lindenbergiana
(Nees) Stapf
Rhodesian tussock grass
PoaceaeSeeds/Nuts
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Seeds, Cereal, Grains
The seeds are ground into a meal and used as a cereal grain.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in open woodlands and on rocky slopes and termite mounds between 1,000-1,700 m above sea level.
Africa, Botswana, Central Africa, Congo, East Africa, Mozambique, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A grass that forms tufts. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 30-120 cm high.
Names & Synonyms
Jarequete
Panicum lindebergianum Neesand others
References (5)
- Chippindall & Crook, 1976-1978,
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 298
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 26
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 89
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
