Microchloa altera(Rendle) Stapf

WFO wfo-0000879875 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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.

Microchloa altera, photographed by Jimmy Whatmore
fig. a Jimmy Whatmore, CC0 1.0 / 2017-08-16 / obs. 39690016
Microchloa altera, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. b Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28503347
Microchloa altera, photographed by Jimmy Whatmore
fig. c Jimmy Whatmore, CC0 1.0 / obs. 39689957
Microchloa altera, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. d Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28503400
Microchloa altera, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. e Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172554148
Microchloa altera, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. f Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172554155

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Microchloa altera is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe Cape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniFree StateKwaZulu-NatalMalawiNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Microchloa altera, 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
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
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 8 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.

  • Enteropogon muticus Hack.
  • Harpochloa altera Rendle
  • Microchloa altera var. nelsonii Stapf
  • Rendlia altera (Rendle) Chiov.
  • Rendlia cupricola J.Duvign.
  • Rendlia mutica (Hack.) Chiov.
  • Rendlia nelsonii (Stapf) Chiov.
  • Rendlia obtusifolia Chiov.

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.