Citation: Hochst. ex Chiov., Ann. Bot., Roma 8:41 (1903).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Kikuyu grass, Kikuyu.

Description:
Perennial, with creeping rhizomes and stolons (lawn grass); leaf blades linear, 3-4 mm broad, glabrous or slightly hairy.

inflorescence a cluster of 1-4 (usually 3) spikelets, included in the upper leaf sheaths; spikelets sessile or shortly pedicellate, subtended by up to 15 delicate bristles which are up to three-quarters of the length of the spikelet, linear-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, glabrous; first glume 0 or minute, second to 2 mm long, broad, hyaline, obscurely nerved; first lemma lanceolate, acuminate, thinly membranous, as long as the spikelet, 9-1 l-nerved, second (fertile) lemma bisexual or less often female.

Published illustration: Meredith (1955) The grasses and pastures of South Africa, fig. 369.

Distribution:    All States.   Native to east Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: Grown as a lawn-grass and occurring as an escape in all inhabited areas.

Author: Not yet available