AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GRASSES OF ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
Keywords:
Ethiopia, Grasses, Grassland, Poaceae.
Abstract
Ethiopia together with Eritrea has a rich grass flora comprising over 600 species. Grasses typical of each of the vegetation types found in the area are discussed. Grasses from specialised edaphic conditions are considered, and also weed, pasture and lawn grasses. The paper concludes with a section on the importance of the Ethiopian highlands as a world centre of diversity for cultivated plants, with notes on indigenous cereal crops.
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Sebsebe Demissew and Friis, I. (2009). Natural vegetation of the flora area. In: Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Vol. 8, pp. 27–32 (Hedberg, I. and Edwards, S., eds.).
Vavilov, N.I. (1931). The wheats of Abyssinia, and their place in the general system of wheats. Bull. Appl. Bot., Suppl. 51 (in Russian).
Vavilov, N.I. (1951). The origin, variation, immunity and breeding of cultivated plants.
Chronica Botanica Vol. 13, pp. 366, 1949/50. [posthumous English translation of collected papers published earlier in Russian].
Zemede Asfaw (1989). The barley of Ethiopia: A focus on the infraspecific taxa. Acta Univ. Ups. Summ. Upps. Dissert. Fac. Sci. 226.
Published
2014-10-17
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