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Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf [family POACEAE]
Date Updated: 30 April 2005
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 2
Names
Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf [family POACEAE]
Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf. [family POACEAE]
Common names
English cane grass (Sierra Leone, Cole). SENEGAL: DIOLA ésisité (JB) GUINEA: FULA-PULAAR (Guinea) kali from Susu (JMD) SUSU kali (JMD) SIERRA LEONE: BULOM (Sherbro) gban-dε (?) (FCD) KONO fa (FCD) fa-mεsε (FCD) KORANKO bσmie (NWT) kesiowuli (NWT) KRIO kεn-gras i.e., cane grass (FCD) LOKO ngara (?) (FCD) waga (NWT) MANDING-MANDINKA gala (FCD) kala (FCD) MENDE ngala (def. ngalei) (auctt.) SUSU kale (NWT) kali (NWT) TEMNE a-bσbσruni (NWT) ε-thaŋkε applied when the flowering culms have grown up (FCD) a-, an- wo(h), a-wop general terms, applied before the flowering culms have appeared (auctt.) VAI fane-baba (FCD) YALUNKA kal-la (FCD) UPPER VOLTA: FULA-FULFULDE (Upper Volta) ŋeloori (pl. -ooje) (K&T) NIGERIA: FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria) marorehe (Saunders) HAUSA kamsuvan doki (Saunders) sansari properly Saccharum spontaneum Linn., but applied here as a group term for similar grasses (JMD; ZOG) shìnkááfár dáájiì = wild rice of the bush; applied loosely (auctt.) shìnkááfár tsúntsúú = wild rice of the bird (JMD)
Uses
Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent Agri-horticulture: fodder cane Products: building materials cane Products: pulp and paper cane Products: beehives cane Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus
Products
english: Cane grass
Description
Robust, coarse, annual grasses, prop-rooted, cane-like culms to 2½ m tall; of the grass savanna. Two very similar species are now recognised, both occurring across the Region, with C. afzelii particularly common in Sierra Leone. C. caudatum extends across central Africa to Sudan. Vernacular names and attributes are mixed in the records and probably are common to both species.The grasses provide good cattle and horse fodder (1, 3, 4; C. caudatum: Nigeria, 7; C. afzelii: Sierra Leone, 5), though on Fouta Djallon, Guinea, there is belief of toxicity (1, 4). Leaves of C. afzelii from Ghana have been found to contain flavonic glycosides (8).The pithy stems are commonly cut in Sierra Leone for fencing (C. afzelii: 5) and the larger canes serve as arrow-shafts (4).C. afzelii has been reported on as an indifferent source of paper-pulp (4, 6).The culms are frequently used in N Sierra Leone to make improvised bee hives in which to take swarming bees (7).
References
References:1. Adam, 1966, a. 2. Boboh, 1974. 3. Cole, 1968,a. 4. Dalziel, 1937: 522. 5. Deighton 855, K. 6. Imp. Inst., s.n. K. 7. Saunders 16, K. 8. Rose Innes 3274 (Harborne 6246), K.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Date Updated: 30 April 2005
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 2
Names
Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf [family POACEAE]
Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf. [family POACEAE]
Common names
English cane grass (Sierra Leone, Cole). SENEGAL: DIOLA ésisité (JB) GUINEA: FULA-PULAAR (Guinea) kali from Susu (JMD) SUSU kali (JMD) SIERRA LEONE: BULOM (Sherbro) gban-dε (?) (FCD) KONO fa (FCD) fa-mεsε (FCD) KORANKO bσmie (NWT) kesiowuli (NWT) KRIO kεn-gras i.e., cane grass (FCD) LOKO ngara (?) (FCD) waga (NWT) MANDING-MANDINKA gala (FCD) kala (FCD) MENDE ngala (def. ngalei) (auctt.) SUSU kale (NWT) kali (NWT) TEMNE a-bσbσruni (NWT) ε-thaŋkε applied when the flowering culms have grown up (FCD) a-, an- wo(h), a-wop general terms, applied before the flowering culms have appeared (auctt.) VAI fane-baba (FCD) YALUNKA kal-la (FCD) UPPER VOLTA: FULA-FULFULDE (Upper Volta) ŋeloori (pl. -ooje) (K&T) NIGERIA: FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria) marorehe (Saunders) HAUSA kamsuvan doki (Saunders) sansari properly Saccharum spontaneum Linn., but applied here as a group term for similar grasses (JMD; ZOG) shìnkááfár dáájiì = wild rice of the bush; applied loosely (auctt.) shìnkááfár tsúntsúú = wild rice of the bird (JMD)
Uses
Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent Agri-horticulture: fodder cane Products: building materials cane Products: pulp and paper cane Products: beehives cane Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus
Products
english: Cane grass
Description
Robust, coarse, annual grasses, prop-rooted, cane-like culms to 2½ m tall; of the grass savanna. Two very similar species are now recognised, both occurring across the Region, with C. afzelii particularly common in Sierra Leone. C. caudatum extends across central Africa to Sudan. Vernacular names and attributes are mixed in the records and probably are common to both species.The grasses provide good cattle and horse fodder (1, 3, 4; C. caudatum: Nigeria, 7; C. afzelii: Sierra Leone, 5), though on Fouta Djallon, Guinea, there is belief of toxicity (1, 4). Leaves of C. afzelii from Ghana have been found to contain flavonic glycosides (8).The pithy stems are commonly cut in Sierra Leone for fencing (C. afzelii: 5) and the larger canes serve as arrow-shafts (4).C. afzelii has been reported on as an indifferent source of paper-pulp (4, 6).The culms are frequently used in N Sierra Leone to make improvised bee hives in which to take swarming bees (7).
References
References:1. Adam, 1966, a. 2. Boboh, 1974. 3. Cole, 1968,a. 4. Dalziel, 1937: 522. 5. Deighton 855, K. 6. Imp. Inst., s.n. K. 7. Saunders 16, K. 8. Rose Innes 3274 (Harborne 6246), K.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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