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Stipa ichu (Peruvian feather grass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Jarava ichu, commonly known as Peruvian feathergrass, ichhu, paja brava, and paja ichu, is a grass endemic to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina, growing extensively in the Andean altiplano. It is used as fodder for livestock, principally South American camelids like the llama.
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Attributes

Structure [1]  Grass

Predators

Romerolagus diazi (Volcano Rabbit)[2]
Sylvilagus cunicularius (Mexican Cottontail)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2Romerolagus diazi, Fernando A. Cervantes, Consuelo Lorenzo, and Robert S. Hoffmann, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 360, pp. 1-7 (1990)
3Sylvilagus cunicularius, Fernando A. Cervantes, Consuelo Lorenzo, Julieta Vargas, and Thorvald Holmes, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 412, pp. 1-4 (1992)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0