Scientific Name :Pennisetum purpureum Vernacular Name :Urubingo Family name :Urubingo Geographic Distribution :everywhere in Rwanda between 1300 m – 2500 m.
Botanical Description Pennisetum purpureum is perennial grass with blade leaf. It produces shoots and is moderately tillering. The stem growth take place from internode expansions. The inflorescences is a round long spike.
Medicinal Use Is used as a diuretic, laxative, and for parasitic infection and venereal diseases. The use of Pennisetum purpureum in the treatment of Clerondendrum rotundifolium, Indigofera erecta, Rhamnus prinoides Peponium vogelii, and Aspergus racenosus . Other medicinal plant may be added for a more efficient treatmet, he added.
Other Use fodder for domestic animals . It is a forage gras.
