Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Eragrostis > Eragrostis tefEragrostis tef (teff)Synonyms: Cynodon abyssinicus; Eragrostis abessinica; Eragrostis abyssinica; Eragrostis abyssinica var. alba (homotypic); Eragrostis abyssinica var. viriidis (homotypic); Eragrostis pilosa abyssinica; Eragrostis pilosa var. tef (homotypic); Eragrostis tef f. spiciformis; Eragrostis tef spiciformis; Eragrostis tef tef; Poa abyssinica; Poa cerealis; Poa flaccida (homotypic); Poa radicans; Poa tef (homotypic) Eragrostis tef, teff, Williams lovegrass, annual bunch grass, taf (Amharic: ጤፍ? ṭēff; Tigrinya: ጣፍ? ṭaff), or xaafii (Oromo), is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to Eritrea and Ethiopia. The word "teff" is connected by folk etymology to the Ethio-Semitic root "ṭff", which means "lost" (because of the small size of the grain). |
| Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | | Lifespan [1] | Annual | | Pollinators [1] | Wind | | Structure [2] | Grass |  | | Height [1] | 39 inches (1 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. |
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
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