Anthistiria imberbis.

Botanical name: 

Anthistiria imberbis Retz. Gramineae.

Africa. This grass grows in great luxuriance in the Upper Nile region, 5° 5' south, and in famines furnishes the natives with a grain.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.