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Taxon:
Cynodon plectostachyus
(K. Schum.) Pilg.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Cynodon
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Cynodonteae
Nomen number:
12857
Place of publication:
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40:82. 1907
Verified:
07/06/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Leptochloa plectostachyus
K. Schum.
No images
Reference(s)
Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp.
Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. 1995
Note:
CRC Press. Revised version of AH 170
Clayton, W. D. & J. R. Harlan.
1970. The genus
Cynodon
L. C. Rich. in tropical Africa. Kew Bull. 24:185.
de Wet, J. M. J. & J. R. Harlan.
1970. Biosystematics of
Cynodon
L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). Taxon 19:567.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
FNA Editorial Committee.
Flora of North America. 1993-
http://floranorthamerica.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cynodon+plectostachyus&quantity=1
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Harlan, J. R. et al.
1969. Hybridization studies with
Cynodon
from East Africa and Malagasy. Amer. J. Bot. 56:945.
http://www.amjbot.org
Harlan, J. R. et al.
1970. A guide to the species of
Cynodon
(Gramineae). Bull. Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Sta. B-673:32.
Harlan, J. R. et al.
1970. Geographic distribution of the species of
Cynodon
L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). E. African Agric. Forest. J. 36:221.
Kellerman, T. S. et al.
Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
giant star grass –
Reference(s)
star grass –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
estrela-africana –
Reference(s)
Spanish
estrella –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Kenya
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Tanzania
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Uganda
1
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Ethiopia
4
Naturalized
natzd. elsewhere
Native
Africa
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kellerman et al.) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses