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| Baiha grass – Competidor, Pensacola | 2 - 4 | Useful on second class country.Can become unpalatable and very dominant if not grazed short. |
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| Buffel grass, Bilioela Gayndah, American | 1 - 4 | Most widely planted grass in Queensland. Hardy, productive, loves fertile soils. |
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| Creeping blue grass Hatch, Bisset | 1 - 4 | A hardy, palatable grass.Will invade Speargrass and establish on heavy clays. Bisset is better, roots at the nodes, better for erosion control |
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| Gamba grass – Kent | 1 - 4 | Well adapted to wetter sectionsof seasonal dry tropics. A very robust grass. |
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| Guinea grass – Hamil Riversdale, Common Coloniao, Makueni | 2 - 6 | Most important wet tropics grass but requires good soil fertility or effective legume. |
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| Indian blue grass (Brothriochloa pertusa) Medway Bluegrass | 1 - 2 | A hardy, free seeding plant. Seed light, fluffy, hard to harvest and handle. Spreading widely in North Queensland. |
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| Kikuyu – Whittet, Noonan | 1 - 2 | Does best in cool moist, elevated fertile basaltic tablelands. Has high fertility requirments. |
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| Molasses grass | 2 - 4 | High rainfall pioneer grass. Carries fire well. |
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| Panic grass Green, Gatton | 2 - 4 | Green panic makes good growth in warm moist winter periods. Withstands shade well. Stands lower rainfall and cooler conditions than Guineas, more subtropical. |
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| Bambasti | 2 - 4 | Good cool season greenness. |
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| Paspalum | 2 - 4 | Will grow on wet flats in lower rainfall areas. Ergot on seedhead often a problem. |
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| Purple pigeon greas – Inverell | 2 - 4 | Establishes on clays where problems are encountered with other grasses. |
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Rhodes grass – FineCut, TopCut Pioneer, Callide, Katambora | 1 - 4 | Giant (Tefraploid) cultivars more palatable. Diploids more hardy. Some salt tolerance |
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| Sabi grass – (Urochloa) Nixon | 1 - 4 | Useful in dry tropics but needs some soil fertility or associated legume. |
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| Setaria – Nandi, Kazungula Narock, Solander, Splenda | 2 - 4 | Narok and Solander are frost tolerant forms. Mainly a coastal grass. |
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| Signal grass – Basilisk | 2 - 4 | Valuable nitrogen fertilised grass in wet tropics. Can suppress legume mixtures. |
