Acceptable Natural Covers

Acceptable Natural Covers

Generally, where leguminous covers do not predominate, soft grasses, ferns and nectariferous herbs are preferred to bare ground conditions. The following species are considered acceptable (B) in plantation

Botanical Name	Common Name	Category
Grasses :
Axonopus compressus	Carpet grass	B
Brachiaria distachya		B
Centotheca lappaces	Barbed grass	B
Commelina nudiflora	Common spiderwort	BNot a grass
Cyrtococcum accrescens	Diffuse panic grass	B
Paspalum conjugatum	Buffalo grass	B
Herbs :
Ageratum conyzoides	White weed	B*
Borreria latifolia	Broadleafed button weed	B
Cleome rutidosperma		B*
Curculigo villosa	Weevil – wort	B
Dianella nemerosa		B
Euphorbia hirta	Spurge	B*
Erecthites valerianifolia	Malayan groundsel	B *
Physallis minima	Bladder cherry	B
Legumes:
Clitoria laurifolia	And most others	B *
Crotolaria spp		B

Undesirable or Noxious Weeds

The following species are considered noxious and should be eradicated:

Botanical Name	Common Name
Asystasia intrusa	Asystasia
Bracharia mutica	Giant bamboo grass
Chromolaena odorata	Siam weed
Clidemia hirta	Linggi weed
Eupatorium odoratum (Chromolaena odoratus)	Siam weed
Dicranopteris (Gleichenia linearis)	Bracken (Resam)
Eleusine indica	Goose grass
Hedyotis verticiliata	Woody borreria
Imperata cylindrica	Lalang
Ischaemum muticum	Bamboo grass
Lantana camara	Lantana
Melastoma malabathricum	Straits Rhododendron
Mikania micrantha	Mile-a-minute
Mimosa pigra	Giant mimosa
Mimosa invisa	Giant Mimosa
Paspalum picticulatum	Giant paspalum
Passiflora foetida	Passiflora
Pennisetum polystachyon	Mission grass (Ekor kucing)
Rottboellia exaltata	Itch grass
Scleria spp	Sedges
Stenochlaena palustrus	Paku Pakis
Tetracera scandens	Paku merah
And all other woody species