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Grasses on the Mogalakwena Reserves

Family: Poaceae (the grass family)

     Subfamily: Arundinoideae

         Tribe: Aristideae
             Aristida congesta barbicollis - spreading three-awn
             Aristida congesta congesta - tassel three-awn
             Aristida scabrivalvis - purple three-awn grass
             Stipagrostis uniplumis uniplumis - silky bushman grass

     Subfamily: Chloridoideae

         Tribe: Pappophoreae
             Enneapogon cenchroides - nine-awned grass
             Schmidtia pappophroides - sand quick
         Tribe: Chlorideae (Cynodonteae, Eragrosteae, Sporoboleae, Leptureae, Trageae, Spartineae)
             Eragrostis superba - sawtooth love grass
             Eragrostis curvula - weeping love grass
             Eragrostis trichophora - hairy love grass
             Eleusine coracana - goose grass
             Dactyloctenium australe - L.M. grass
             Dactyloctenium giganteum - giant crowfoot
             Chloris virgata - feathered chloris
             Cynodon dactylon - couch grass
             Sporobolus fimbriatus - dropseed grass
             Tragus racemosus - large carrot seed grass
             Tragus berteronianus - common carrot seed grass

     Subfamily: Panicoideae

       Supertribe: Panicoidae
         Tribe: Paniceae
             Melinis repens - Natal red top
             Panicum schinzii - sweet buffalo grass
             Panicum maximum - Guinea grass
             Paspalum dilatatum - dallis grass
             Urochloa mosambicensis - Bushveld signal grass
             Digitaria velutina - flaccid finger grass
             Digitaria eriantha - finger grass
             Setaria sagittifolia - arrow grass
             Setaria verticillata - bur bristle grass
             Setaria sphacelata sphacelata - common bristle grass
             Cenchrus ciliaris - blue buffalo grass
       Supertribe: Andropogonidae
         Tribe: Andropogoneae
           Subtribe: Andropogoninae
             Bothriochloa radicans - stinking grass
             Bothriochloa insculpta - pinhole grass