''Brachiaria nigropedata'' (spotted brachiaria, af, swartvoetjie, ktz, beye- ǁxui-doa, german: Schwarzfüßchen) is a

perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

grass belonging to the grass family (

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

). It is native to

Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...

the tropical regions of South Africa and East Africa. Brachiaria nigropedata is used as fodder grass in Namibia. As a pioneering grass, it has also environmental uses such as revegetation and soil binding.Heuzé V., Thiollet H., Tran G., Lebas F., 2018. Spotted brachiaria (Brachiaria nigropedata). Feedipedia, a programme by INRA, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO. https://www.feedipedia.org/node/485

References

Flora of Namibia Panicoideae {{Poaceae-stub