Kangaroo grass
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- Work cat.: Tothill, J.C. The grasses of Southern Queensland, 1983.
- Hortus 3(Themeda australis)
- Encyc. Australia(Kangaroo-grass)
- Web. 3.
- McDougall, K.L. The re-establishment of Themeda triandra (kangaroo grass), 1989.
- The new Royal Hort. Soc. dict. of gardening, 1992:v. 4, p. 456 (Themeda australis, see Themeda triandra)
- Mabberley, D.J. The plant-book, c1997:p. 710 (Themeda. 18 trop. Old World spp. forming the principal cover in fire-climax 'steppe' as T. triandra (rooigras) in trop. & S. Afr., T. australis (recently included in T. Triandra) & other spp. in Aus. (kangaroo grass))
- Flora of New South Wales, 1990-1993:v. 4, p. 448 (Themeda australis. Kangaroo Grass)
- Usher dict. plants(Themeda triandra. Africa, India, Australia. Grown as a fodder grass. The seeds are used as famine food.)
- Lazarides, M. The grasses of central Australia, 1970:p. 238 (Kangaroo Grass (native kangaroo grass), Themeda australis)
Wikipedia description:
Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans. Kangaroo grass was formerly thought to be one of two species, and was named Themeda australis. The plant has traditional uses as food and medicine in Africa and Australia. Indigenous Australians harvested it to make bread and string for fishing nets around 30,000 years ago. It was used as livestock feed in early colonial Australia, but this use was largely replaced by introduced plants. As of 2021 there is a large government-funded project underway to investigate the possibility of growing kangaroo grass commercially in Australia for use as a regular food source for humans.
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