Many are savanna grasses, in various parts of the tropics, for instance the large genus Andropogon, Elionurus and others.
Savanna grasslands are found between tropical rainforests and desert.
On the hills the baobab and hyphaene palm are characteristic; on the plateau are stretches of open savanna, and park-like country with clumps of silk cotton and shea-butter trees.
Elionurus, a widespread savanna grass in tropical and subtropical America, and also in the tropics of the old world, is rejected by cattle probably on account of its aromatic character, the spikelets having a strong balsam-like smell.
The Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado Introduction Central Brazil is covered by a type of tree savanna known as " cerrado " .
