Distribution Map

Rottboellia cochinchinensis

(Rottboellia exaltata)

Poaceae Panicoideae Andropogoneae Rottboelliinae

As at April 2024, 5 herbarium specimens, 2 photo records

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Found within protected areas: Malolotja

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Rottboellia exaltata - Robust greyish annual, erect, up to 3 m or more high, with stiff little-branched stems, in parts (especially leaf-sheaths) with numerous rough bulbous-based easily detached bristles, stilt roots often produced at lowest nodes. Leaves flat, c 1,8 cm wide or more, tapering to long fine points, with numerous sharp spiny hairs along margins. Spike simple, straight or jointed, pale, up to 15 cm long; spikelets closely appressed, in pairs, hairless, awnless, one much smaller than other.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.