Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortAndropogon gayanus
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | grass | Physiology | multi stem |
| Habit | erect | Category | forage/pasture, materials, environmental |
| Life span | perennial | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 22 | 28 | 16 | 32 | Soil texture | medium | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 750 | 1400 | 400 | 3000 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | - | - | 15 | 25 | Soil Al. tox | none (<5% of CEC) | high (<5% of CEC) |
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 2000 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 4.5 | 6.5 | 4 | 7.5 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) |
| Light intensity | very bright | clear skies | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical dry summer (Cs) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | no input | Killing temp. early growth | no input |
| Abiotic toler. | fire, drought | Abiotic suscept. | |
| Introduction risks. | can become a weed |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | large scale/commercial | Crop cycle | 150 | 270 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| phase planting | Centrosema pubescens, Pueraria phaseoloides, Stylosanthes spp., Desmodium heterocarpon ssp. ovalifolium, Desmodium heterocarpon subsp. heterocarpon, Arachis pintoi, Centrosema acutifolium, Centrosema brasilianum | low | low | |
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | entire plant |
| environmental | erosion control | entire plant |
| environmental | revegetation | entire plant |
| environmental | windbreak | entire plant |
| material | canes | bark |