Common names:

• heart-seed grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• sawtooth love grass  (Source: Grass SAfr) - English
• Wilman love grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• weeluiseragrostis  (Source: Grass SAfr) - Afrikaans
• Herzstraubgras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• capim-Massai  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• pasto avena  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental: revegetator
• Weed: potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal]


Naturalized

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• Mexico

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=15319. Accessed 5 July 2024.