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Genus: Agrostis
Life
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> Family: Poaceae
There are about 220 species worldwide (in temperate
regions and at high altitudes in the tropics) of which 12 are native to southern Africa and two naturalised.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Agrostis
avenacea
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Agrostis
barbuligera |
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Agrostis
bergiana |
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Agrostis
continuata |
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Agrostis
eriantha |
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Agrostis griquensis
[= Polypogon griquensis]
Recorded from
Northern Cape and Free State but it has not been
collected since 1939. There is a possibility that it is
an introduced alien species that never became naturalised (Fish 2006). |
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Agrostis
lachnantha |
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Agrostis
phalaroides |
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Agrostis
polypogonoides |
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Agrostis producta
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Agrostis
schlechteri |
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Agrostis
subulifolia |
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Species naturalised in southern Africa
List from
Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
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Agrostis
gigantea
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Agrostis
montevidensis |
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Publications
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Smook, L. [=Fish, L.] & Stirton, C.H. 1979. Notes on
African plants. Naturalized Agrostis in South Africa:
Agrostis avenacea and A. montevidensis. Bothalia 12:
637.
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