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    Brachiaria reptans is an annual grass that grows 15-60 cm high, rooting at nodes. It has ovate-lanceolate leaf blades 2-8 cm long and 3-17 mm wide. Its inflorescence is 5-16 cm racemes with 1-4 cm spikelets borne in pairs on the rhachis. It is found on roadsides and undisturbed ground from 0-400m altitude in Kenya, Tanzania, and tropical Asia, and has been introduced throughout the tropics. While palatable, it is not a very productive grass.

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    Brachiaria reptans is an annual grass that grows 15-60 cm high, rooting at nodes. It has ovate-lanceolate leaf blades 2-8 cm long and 3-17 mm wide. Its inflorescence is 5-16 cm racemes with 1-4 cm spikelets borne in pairs on the rhachis. It is found on roadsides and undisturbed ground from 0-400m altitude in Kenya, Tanzania, and tropical Asia, and has been introduced throughout the tropics. While palatable, it is not a very productive grass.

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    Brachiaria reptans is an annual grass that grows 15-60 cm high, rooting at nodes. It has ovate-lanceolate leaf blades 2-8 cm long and 3-17 mm wide. Its inflorescence is 5-16 cm racemes with 1-4 cm spikelets borne in pairs on the rhachis. It is found on roadsides and undisturbed ground from 0-400m altitude in Kenya, Tanzania, and tropical Asia, and has been introduced throughout the tropics. While palatable, it is not a very productive grass.

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    Brachiaria Reptans

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    Brachiaria reptans is an annual grass that grows 15-60 cm high, rooting at nodes. It has ovate-lanceolate leaf blades 2-8 cm long and 3-17 mm wide. Its inflorescence is 5-16 cm racemes with 1-4 cm spikelets borne in pairs on the rhachis. It is found on roadsides and undisturbed ground from 0-400m altitude in Kenya, Tanzania, and tropical Asia, and has been introduced throughout the tropics. While palatable, it is not a very productive grass.

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    Brachiaria reptans (L.

    ) Gardner & Hubbard




    7,23,0
    Synonyms &rochloa reptans (L.) StapI
    ommon names #unning grass

    Brachiaria reptans
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    ecumbent annual, 15-60 cm high rooting at nodes. LeaI-blades ovate-lanceolate, 2-8 cm long
    and 3-17 mm wide. InIlorescence oI 5-16 cm racemes on an axis 1-8 cm long; racemes 1-4 cm in
    length with a triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets, glabrous, narrowly ovate, 1.5-2.2 mm long, borne in
    pairs and crowded on the rhachis.
    abitat
    #oadside and undisturbed ground.
    Altitude range
    0-400 m.
    istribution
    Kenya; also Irom United #epublic oI Tanzania, tropical Asia and introduced throughout the
    tropics.
    Use
    Palatable but not productive.


    Edited by F. Guiso Gallisai
    Information taken from Ibrahim, K. M., Kabuye, C. H. S. 1988. An illustrated manual oI
    Kenya grasses. #ome, FAO. 765 pp.

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