Hemarthria altissima, variously called limpo grass, limpograss, halt grass, Batavian quick grass, swamp couch grass, red swamp grass and red vleigrass, is a species of flowering plant in the jointgrass genus Hemarthria, family Poaceae.[1] It is native to the Old World Tropics and Subtropics; Africa, Southern Europe, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, eastern China, and Borneo, and widely introduced as a forage in the New World, from Texas and Florida south to northern Argentina.[2] In addition to being a valued forage for livestock, it makes a good, fragrant silage.[2] A number of cultivars are commercially available.[3]
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| Patches of Hemarthria altissima in a pasture in Hawaii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Genus: | Hemarthria |
| Species: | H. altissima
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| Hemarthria altissima | |
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References
edit- ^ a b "Hemarthria altissima (Poir.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ a b Heuzé, V.; Tran, G.; Eugène, M.; Lebas (15 July 2015). "Limpo grass (Hemarthria altissima)". Feedipedia – Animal Feed Resources Information System. Feedipedia, a programme by INRAE, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ Lin, Yao; Zhang, Ailing; Yang, Shengting; Huang, Linkai (2019). "Reference gene selection for real-time quantitative PCR normalization in Hemarthria compressa and Hemarthria altissima leaf tissue". Molecular Biology Reports. 46 (5): 4763–4769. doi:10.1007/s11033-019-04922-4. PMID 31228043. S2CID 195246694.
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