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Taxon:  Dichanthium caricosum (L.) A. Camus



Summary
Genus:
Dichanthium
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
13899
Place of publication:
Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 27:549. 1921
Verified:
03/13/2008 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
Andropogon caricosus L.

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Reference(s)
  1. Babu, C. R. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. 1977
  2. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
  3. Burkill, H. M. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004
  4. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
  5. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  6. 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=Dichanthium+caricosum&quantity=1
  7. George, A. S., ed. Flora of Australia. 1980-
  8. Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:181. Note: based on a 1980 citation
  9. Holttum, R. E. et al. A revised flora of Malaya. 1953-1971
  10. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980
  11. Matthew, K. M. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. 1983
  12. Randall, R. P. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. 2007 http://www.weeds.org.au/docs/intro_flora_australia.pdf
  13. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
  14. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  15. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuizhou 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaIndochina  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustralia n.
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Guizhou, Yunnan]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
  • INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
Naturalized
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia (n.)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA) –


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