Chloris gayana Kunth is a plant in the Poaceae family, order Poales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.
Chloris gayana Kunth
Chloris gayana Kunth is a perennial tuft-forming grass that spreads via stolons and has distinctive fingerlike racemes.
Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.
Chloris gayana Kunth is a perennial grass that grows to between 0.5 meters and almost 3 meters tall. It spreads through stolons, forms tufts, and can expand into wide monotypic stands. Its inflorescence consists of a single or double whorl of fingerlike racemes, which can grow up to 15 centimeters long. Each spikelet on the raceme is a few millimeters long, holding one or two fertile florets and up to four sterile florets.
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Dichanthelium aciculare (Desv.) Gould & C.A.Clark
Aira elegans Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
Bromus benekenii (Lange) Trimen
Agrostis vinealis Schreb.
Andropogon gayanus Kunth
Urochloa mutica (Forssk.) T.Q.Nguyen
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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