A widely distributed tufted grass that grows on poor soils and is of low palatability to grazing animals.
扁芒草属植物
Genus Danthonia, family Gramineae
Example sentencesExamples
Experiments prove to me that many of the New Zealand grasses are very valuable for their feeding and fattening properties, such as the Danthonias.
In dry, open, lowland situations, the hairy and ringed Danthonias, D. pilosa and D. semiannularis, are common.
The Danthonia was decimated by the corellas this year. The mothers just pulled up all the new growth by the 1,000's when plowing the paddocks.
We examined the field distribution of Danthonia spicata infected and uninfected by the epiphytic fungus Atkinsonella hypoxylon relative to soil resource levels.
Central to this successful group of semi-arid species is the suite of danthonias, known in Australia as ‘wallaby grasses’.
Origin
Modern Latin, named after Étienne Danthoine, 19th-century French botanist.