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Taxon:  Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C. E. Hubb.



Summary
Genus:
Dichanthium
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
13898
Place of publication:
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939:654. 1939
Verified:
03/10/2004 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 aristatus Poir.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon nodosus auct.
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Reference(s)
  1. 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
  2. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
  3. 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
  4. Davidse, G. et al., eds. Flora mesoamericana. 1994
  5. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. 1999-
  6. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
  7. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  8. 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+aristatum&quantity=1
  9. George, A. S., ed. Flora of Australia. 1980-
  10. Ghazanfar, S. A. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. 1992
  11. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  12. Gould, F. W. The grasses of Texas. 1975
  13. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980
  14. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  15. Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. Flora of Hassan district. 1976
  16. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  17. Wood, J. R. I. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
  18. 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
English
Angleton bluestem –
Angleton grass –
awned dichanthium –
bluestem –
Spanish
hierba angleton –
puntero –
Transcribed Chinese
mao geng shuang hua cao –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
2Cultivated    also cult.
4Naturalized    widely natzd. elsewhere
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Yunnan]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
lawn/turf (fide F NAmer) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA) –


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