''Anthephora pubescens'', with the common names bottle brush grass and wool grass, is a draught tolerant

bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...

native to tropical and southern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. Common names in other languages include: af, Borseltjiegras, naq, uruǀgâab, hz, otjimbele, german: Ästiges Kruggras.

Taxonomy

Synonyms and former names include: ''Anthephora abyssinica'' A. Rich., ''Anthephora cenchroides'' (Hochst.) K. Schum. ex Engl., ''Anthephora elegans'' Rupr. ex Steud., ''Anthephora hochstetteri'' Nees ex Hochst., ''Anthephora kotschyi'' Hochst., ''Hypudaeurus cenchroides'' Hochst. ex A. Braun)

Uses

This plant is cultivated especially for

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

rotation. In addition, it often makes a high quality

hay Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticat ...

, and it is also used

forage Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term ''forage'' has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used m ...

source.

References

External links

FAO.org: ''Anthephora pubescens''

Panicoideae Bunchgrasses of Africa Flora of East Tropical Africa Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa Flora of South Tropical Africa Flora of Southern Africa Flora of West Tropical Africa Flora of Namibia Flora of South Africa Forages {{Panicoideae-stub