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Grasses of the British Indian Ocean Territory

A guide to the grasses of the British Indian Ocean Territory

seashore paspalum 1
Paspalum vaginatum
Goose Grass 2
Eleusine indica
Southern Sandbur 3
Cenchrus echinatus
Seashore Dropseed 4
Sporobolus virginicus
Natal grass 5
Melinis repens
knot grass 4
Paspalum distichum
Giant Ratstail Grass 6
Sporobolus pyramidalis
Thalia Lovegrass
Eragrostis atrovirens
golden bamboo 7
Bambusa vulgaris
Cup Grass 4
Eriochloa procera
Guineagrass 8
Panicum maximum
Saint Augustine grass 9
Stenotaphrum secundatum
Paspalum nutans
Kleberg's bluestem 4
Dichanthium annulatum
Stalky Grass 10
Lepturus repens
Leptochloa fusca subsp. uninervia 11
Leptochloa fusca uninervia
Pennisetum polystachion 3
Perennial Ryegrass 12
Lolium perenne
Eragrostis spartinoides
beardgrass 13
Schizachyrium condensatum
Stenotaphrum dimidiatum 14
Eragrostis amabilis 15
Johnson grass 16
Sorghum halepense
Digitaria horizontalis
Barbas de Indio 17
Andropogon bicornis
Reimarochloa oligostachya
Pinewoods Fingergrass
Eustachys petraea
Brachiaria subquadripara 18
Digitaria longiflora 19
Australian Bluestem 20
Bothriochloa bladhii
Finger Grass 21
Chloris barbata
Digitaria setigera 10
Bermuda grass 22
Cynodon dactylon

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