(Chloris gayana), a perennial plant of the family Gramineae. Rhodes grass is 90 to 180 cm tall and has long, fruticose-aggregate, leafy shoots that root at the nodes. The leaf blades are broadly linear, and the inflorescence has digitately approximate spike-like branchlets. The spikelets, which are two- to four-flowered, are arranged in two rows. The lemma is awned. Rhodes grass grows in arid mountain regions of South and East Africa. It is cultivated as a pasture and hay plant in arid tropics and subtropics. The plant tolerates grazing and pasturing well.