Eragrostis rotiferRendle

WFO wfo-0000868371 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Eragrostis rotifer, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. a Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 199959326
Eragrostis rotifer, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. b Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199959274
Eragrostis rotifer, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. c Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199959228
Eragrostis rotifer, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. d Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199959132
Eragrostis rotifer, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. e Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199959378

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Eragrostis rotifer is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, DR Congo, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesCaprivi StripDR CongoEswatiniFree StateKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Eragrostis rotifer, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
Caprivi Strip CPV
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eragrostis airiformis Rendle
  • Eragrostis angusta Hack.
  • Eragrostis beroensis Rendle
  • Eragrostis densiflora Rendle
  • Eragrostis margaritacea Stapf
  • Eragrostis platyphylla Rendle
  • Poa tenuiflora Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.