Stipagrostis obtusa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Stipagrostis
- Species
- Stipagrostis obtusa
- Scientific Name
- Stipagrostis obtusa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stipagrostis obtusa
Stipagrostis obtusa (Afrikaans: kortbeen boesmangras, Khoekhoe: ǂhabob, Hebrew: מלענן ריסני) is a perennial grass belonging to the grass family (Poaceae). It is a widespread species, being native to North Africa, Mauritania, Chad, Ethiopia, Southern Africa, Western Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan.
Stipagrostis obtusa is used as fodder grass in Namibia, it can survive on an annual rainfall of about 150 millimetres (5.9 in).
...Stipagrostis obtusa in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Kortbeenboesmangras
- Afrikaans
- Fyn-twaa
- Afrikaans
- Kliptwa
- Afrikaans
- Beesgras
- Afrikaans
- fyn twa
- Afrikaans
- Fyntwa
- Afrikaans
- Kortbeenboesmansgras
- English
- Small Bushman Grass
- English
- Short Bushman Grass
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Stipagrostis amabilis
- Stipagrostis anomala
- Stipagrostis brevifolia
- Stipagrostis ciliata
- Stipagrostis damarensis
- Stipagrostis dinteri
- Stipagrostis drarii
- Stipagrostis dregeana
- Stipagrostis fastigiata
- Stipagrostis garubensis
- Stipagrostis geminifolia
- Stipagrostis giessii
- Stipagrostis gonatostachys
- Stipagrostis hermannii
- Stipagrostis hirtigluma
- Stipagrostis hochstetteriana
- Stipagrostis lanata
- Stipagrostis lanipes
- Stipagrostis lutescens
- Stipagrostis namaquensis
- Stipagrostis namibensis
- Stipagrostis obtusa
- Stipagrostis pellytronis
- Stipagrostis pennata
- Stipagrostis plumosa
- Stipagrostis proxima
- Stipagrostis pungens
- Stipagrostis raddiana
- Stipagrostis ramulosa
- Stipagrostis sabulicola
- Stipagrostis schaeferi
- Stipagrostis scoparia
- Stipagrostis seelyae
- Stipagrostis subacaulis
- Stipagrostis uniplumis
- Stipagrostis zeyheri































































































































