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broadleaf panicum
Panicum deustum
Batochloa is a genus of grasses. It includes a single species, Batochloa deusta, commonly known as broadleaf panicum or rietbuffelgras. It is a tufted or shortly rhizomatous perennial native to Senegal and to eastern and southern Africa from Sudan to South Africa. It grows in forests, deciduous bushland and grassland on argillaceous (heavy clay) or arenaceous (sandy) soils.
Batochloa deusta is a larval food plant for the butterflies banded evening brown (Gnophodes betsimena diversa) and gold spotted sylph (Metisella metis paris).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 558319.