Themeda triandra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Themeda
- Species
- Themeda triandra
- Scientific Name
- Themeda triandra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Themeda triandra
Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans. Kangaroo grass was formerly thought to be one of two species, and was named Themeda australis.
The plant has traditional uses as food and medicine in Africa and Australia. Indigenous Australians harvested it to make bread and string for fishing nets around 30,000 years ago. It was used as livestock feed in early colonial Australia, but this use was largely replaced by introduced plants. As of 2021 there is a large government-funded project underway to investigate the possibility of growing kangaroo grass commercially in Australia for use as a regular food source for humans.
...Themeda triandra in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Rooigras
- Afrikaans
- angelgras
- Afrikaans
- asgras
- Afrikaans
- blourooigras
- Afrikaans
- hoėveldrooigras
- Afrikaans
- hoėveldsrooigras
- Afrikaans
- rooi angelgras
- Afrikaans
- rooi gras
- Afrikaans
- rooiangel
- Afrikaans
- rooihawergras
- Afrikaans
- rooihawersaadgras
- Afrikaans
- rooisaad
- Afrikaans
- rooisaadgras
- Chinese
- 黃背草
- Czech
- štětkovka trojmužná
- English
- Kangaroo Grass
- English
- Red Grass
- English
- Spurned Grass
- English
- Red Grass / Kangaroo Grass
- English
- Angle Grass
- English
- Red Oat Grass
- Finnish
- savannitöyhtöheinä
- Japanese
- メガルカヤ
- Korean
- 솔새
- Lithuanian
- Trikuokė temeda
- Russian
- Темеда трехтычинковая
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Themeda anathera
- Themeda arguens
- Themeda arundinacea
- Themeda avenacea
- Themeda caudata
- Themeda cymbaria
- Themeda gigantea
- Themeda helferi
- Themeda huttonensis
- Themeda idjensis
- Themeda minor
- Themeda mooneyi
- Themeda palakkadensis
- Themeda pseudotremula
- Themeda quadrivalvis
- Themeda sabarimalayana
- Themeda saxicola
- Themeda tremula
- Themeda triandra
- Themeda trichiata
- Themeda unica
- Themeda villosa
- Themeda yunnanensis































































































































































