Danthoniopsis ramosa
(Stapf) Clayton
Rock oats
PoaceaeSeeds/Nuts
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Seeds, Cereal
The seeds are used as cereal.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in hot arid places with a marked dry season. It grows in well-drained soils in rocky or sandy soils. It grows between 500-2,100 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.
Africa, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa,
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 tussock forming grass. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows up to 1 m high. The leaf blade is 30 cm long and 3 mm wide. The spikelets are 10 mm long. They occur singly or in pairs.
Production
The seeds are collected from ant hills.
Notes
It is a C4 plant.
Names & Synonyms
Kliphawer
Loudetia anomala C. E. Hubb. & Schweick.Loudetia ramosa (Stapf) C. E. Hubb.Trichopteryx ramosa Stapf
References (5)
- http://www.sabonet.org.za/downloads/20_namibian_grasses/d_namgrass_list1.pdf
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 8th May 2011]
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 87
- 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
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
