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Imperata cylindrica (alang-alang; cogongrass; paillotte; santintail; cogon grass; kunai; blady grass; Speargrass; Japgrass; Satintail)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Imperata cylindrica, commonly known as blady grass, cogon grass /koʊˈɡoʊn/, kunai grass /ˈkuːnaɪ/, or Japanese bloodgrass, is a species of grass in the genus Imperata. It is placed in the subfamily Panicoideae, supertribe Andropogonodae, tribe Andropogoneae.
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Infraspecies

Imperata arundinacea var. arundinacea
Imperata cylindrica cylindrica
Imperata cylindrica major
Imperata cylindrica var. koenigii

Invasive Species

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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [2]  Grass
Usage [1]  The leaves are woven to make mats, bags and raincoats; The inflorescences are valued for stuffing pillows and cushions; The stems are used in thatching roofs; A fibre obtained from the leaves is used in making paper; Can be planted on sandy soils to prevent erosion; The plants form impenetrably dense clumps and when planted close together in drifts make an excellent ground cover;
Height [1]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Width [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 5Dry season diets of sympatric ungulates in lowland Nepal: competition and facilitation in alluvial tall grasslands, Per Wegge, Anil K. Shrestha, Stein R. Moe, Ecol Res (2006) 21:698–706
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7"Diet and Habitat use of Hispid Hare Caprolagus hispidus in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, Nepal", Achyut Aryal, Dianne Brunton, Weihong Ji, Hemanta Kumar Yadav, Bikash Adhikari and David Raubenheimer, Mammal Study 37(2):147-154. 2012
♦ 8Abundance of food plant species and food habits of Rhinoceros unicornis Linn. in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India, Pradip Konwar, Malabika Kakati Saikia & P.K. Saikia, Journal of Threatened Taxa | September 2009 | 1(9): 457-460
♦ 9del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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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