Grass

GROWTH HABIT

LEAVES

TOLERANCE TO

Adaptability

D

WL

LFS

Soil

Rainfall

(annual)

Napier grass

Robust cane-like

Broad and tapering

G

F

P

Wide range but

1015 mm

Pennisetum

species reaching a

with a strong midrib

deep loams are

and over

purpureum

height of 2-5. m with

ideal.

short, stout under

ground stems

Guinea grass

A course, leafy and

Long and bread and

VG

F

P

Wide range but

1015 mm

Panicum

deep-rooted perennial

well-distributed

suited to well-

and over

máximum

with a typical stool-

along the stems

drained soils of

forming habit

medium to high

fertility

Para grass

Creeping and trailing

Broad, erect and

F

VG

P

Fiat lands and

1015 mm

Brachiaria

with stout and stolons

hairy

areas with poor

and over

mutica

above the ground

drainage

runners

Kennedy ruzi

Creeping and trailing

10.2 to 25.3 or 4-10

F

F

P

Wide range but

1525 mm

Brachiaria

reaching a height of 90

in long, soft, sharply

grows best on

and over

ruziziensis

cm or 3 ft

pointed and covered

well-drained soil

with fine hairs

of high fertility

Signal grass

Creeping and trailing

Short and dark

F

F

G

Quick drying,

1525 mm

Brachiaria

which is very similar to

green leaf blades

shallow, hillside

decumbens

Para grass

soils

African Star

Spreading with stout

Smooth, narrow and

G

F

F

Wide range from

500 mm

grass

rapidly growing

3.8 cm long

coarse to fine

and over

Cynodon

solomons

soils

plectos-

tachyus

Centro

Trailing twinning and

Shiny bright green

F

G

F

Wide range

1525 mm

Centrosema

climbing

wKh sparse hairs,

including those

and over

pubesceos

ovate-elliptical

with low pH and

leaflets

poor drainage

Ipil-ipil

Tree

Smooth, bipinnate

VG

P

G

Well-drained

760 mm

Leucaena

leaf stalk, 15-25 cm

soils, slightly

and over

leucoce-phala

long

acidic to slightly

Stylo

Vigorous, bushy

Trifoliate leaves,

G

F

VG

Many soil types

1525 mm

Stylosanthes

perennial 0.5-1.5 m

with elliptical leaflets

including those

guyanensis

high which muy

and iong hairs on

w/ low pH;

cv. Cook

become troiling under

the mid-vein of the

grows well on

grazing pressure

lower surface

sandy soils as

well

Siratro

A perennial with

Pinnately trifolate

VG

F

G

Wide range but

760-1780

Macroptilium

deeply penetrating

dark green and

does not per-

mm

atropurpur-

roots and trailing

hairy on the upper

form well on

eum

stems which may root

surface; lateral

poorly drained

anywhere along its

leaflets indented

soils

length

Calliandra

Tree

Smooth, bipinnate

VG

P

G

Well-drained soil

750 mm

Calliandra

leaf stalk 10-15 cm

and over

calothyrsus

Flemingia

Shrub

Simple, uvate to

G

F

G

Wide range of

800 mm

Flemingia

oblong with

soil but well-

and over

macrophylla

pointer tip and round

drained soils

base

Madre de

Tree

Smooth, odd, bipin-

G

F

G

Weli-drained soil

750 mm

Cacao

nate leaves, green

and over

Gliricida

and shining on

sepium.

upper surface 15-25

cm Long

Acid ipil-ipil

Tree

Small bipinnate

G

F

G

Well-drained soil

750mm

Leucaena

small leaflet

and above

diversifolia

Rensoni

Shrub

Pinnately trifoliate

F

F

G

Well-drained soil

1000 mm

Desmodium

hairy beneath

and over

rensonii

terminal one oblong

GRASS

PROPA-

SEEDING

DM YIELD

YIELD

CP (%)

Row

REMARKS

GATION

RATE

(t/ha)

(kg/ha )

distance

(kg/ha)

Napier grass

Vegetative

35,000-

15-40

1.13-2.16

1 m

Cut 15-20

Pennisetum

40,000

cm from the

purpureum

seed species

ground

Guinea grass

Vegetative

35,000-

5-20

150-200

1.15-1.66

1 m

Cut 20-25

Panicum

and seed

40,000

cm from the

maximum

rootstock pc.

ground

or 3-8 kg

seeds

Para grass

Vegetative

5 t of

2.5-8

100-150

0.50 m

Spread

Brachiaria

and seed

cuttings

slowly;

ruziziensis

materials or

should be

3-6 kg seeds

allowed to

develop

before

cutting

Signa grass

Vegetative

5 t of cutting

5-12

150-200

1.95

0.50 m

Cut; they

Brachiaria

and seed

materials or

recover very

decumbens

3-4 kg seeds

slowly

African star

Vegetative

5 t of cutting

5-9

1.61-6.05

1 m

Cut close to

grass

materials

the ground

Cynodon

or old stem

plectostachysus

will get

rough.

Centro

Seed

1-8

3-10

500-700

3.8-5.01

1 m

Climb other

Centnosema

grasses

pubesceos

well, thus

when cut as

combined

with grass

Ipi-ipil

Seed/

4-30

7-24

150-500

12.56-

1 m

Need to cut

Leucaena

cutting

17.52

1 m from the

leucocephala

ground;

psyllid and water

l

ogged

Stylo

Seed

2.5-5

6-12

300

5.12

0.5 cm

Cut 10 cm

Stylosanthes

from the

guyenensis cv.

ground and

Cook

allow to

grow

Siratro

Seed

2-5

3-10

700-1000

3.09

0.5

Could be

Macroptilium

mixed with

atropurpureum

grasses

Calliandra

Seeds

4-10

3.7

-

22-24

1-2 m

Cut 50-65

Calliandra

cm from the

calothyrsus

ground

Flemingia

Seed

2-6

2.65

-

22

1-2 m

Cut 0.5-1.0

Flemingia

m from the

macrophylia

ground

Madre do cacao

Seed and

4-6

2.6

5.7

19.13

1-2 m

Cut 1 m

Gliricida

vegetative

from the

sepium

ground; fast

regrowth

Acid ¡pil-ipil

Seeds

44

6-9

600

21

1-2 m

Cut 1 m

Leucaena

from the

diversifolia

ground; fast

regrowth

Rensoni

Seeds and

2-3

2.5 -4

400

22-23

0.5-1.0 m

Cut 0.5 m

Desmodium

cuttings

from the

rensonii

ground; fast

regrowth