POACEAE
(GRAMINEAE)
Eragrostis tremula
Hochst. ex Steud.
Zarma name:
kullum
An elegant, waist-high grass very common in cultivated or fallowed fields.
Uses:
Thatching material (whole plant), fodder (whole plant), medicine (roots)
2. Thin branches serve as a perch during the night for a kind of small bee
1. Panicle
3. Seedlings in a pearl millet field
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