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Alloteropsis semialata
Cockatoo grass (Alloteropsis semialata) is a perennial grass from the Poaceae family, found across tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, Madagascar and Australasia. It grows well in open, sunny, seasonally dry grassland and is tolerant of drought and fire.
Alloteropsis semialata, known commonly as black seed grass, cockatoo grass, donkersaad gras, swartsaadgras, tweevingergras, and isi quinti, is a perennial grass found in tropical regions of Asia, Africa, Madagascar, and Australasia.
It is distributed across much of tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and Papuasia.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
