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Taxon:  Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.



Summary
Genus:
Eragrostis
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Eragrostideae
Nomen number:
15321
Place of publication:
Syst. veg. 2:576. 1817
Comment:
  • authorship verified from original literature
  • first author to unite Poa tenella L. & P. amabilis L. was Stapf (1897, who chose P. tenella), not Munro (1862), despite the assertion in Regnum Veg. 119:309. 1988
Verified:
02/08/2008 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
Poa tenella L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.
Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link
Poa amabilis L.
Poa plumosa Retz.
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Reference(s)
  1. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
  2. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt checklist. 1995 Note: = E. amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  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. Davidse, G. et al., eds. Flora mesoamericana. 1994 Note: = E. amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
  6. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- Note: = E. amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
  7. Ghazanfar, S. A. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. 1992
  8. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  9. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  10. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  11. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  12. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
  13. Koch, S. D. 1978. Notes on the genus Eragrostis (Gramineae) in the southeastern United States. Rhodora 80:399.
  14. Koyama, T. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. 1987
  15. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  16. Lazarides, M. 1997. A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 10:157-158. http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/151.htm
  17. Nicolson, D. H. et al. 1988. An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Veg. 119:309. Note: = E. amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
  18. 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
  19. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  20. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
  21. Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
  22. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:127. http://proseanet.org
  23. Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:243.
  24. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  25. Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  26. Veldkamp, J. F. 2003. Miscellaneous notes on Thai Gramineae. Blumea 48:495-501. Note: mentions as being confused with Eragrostis amabilis
  27. Wood, J. R. I. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
  28. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  29. Zon, A. P. M. van der. Graminées du Cameroun. 1992
Common names
English
Bug's egg grass –
Japanese love grass –
Portuguese (Brazil)
capim-plumoso –
Transcribed Chinese
ji yu ca –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt s.e.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal 
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaTransvaal 
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBurkina Faso  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGambia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaLiberia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNiger  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMauritius  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanReunion  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaOman  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaSaudi Arabia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaFujian 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdong 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxi 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHubei 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanRyukyu Islands 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIranHormozgan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalNorth Indian OceanIndiaAndaman and Nicobar 
1NativePacificNorthwestern PacificMarshall Islands  
1NativePacificNorthwestern PacificMicronesia  
1NativePacificNorthwestern PacificPalau  
2Cultivated    also cult.
4NaturalizedAsia-TropicalNorth Indian OceanBritish Indian Ocean TerrDiego Garcia 
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustralia  
4NaturalizedNorthern America Mexico  
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabamas.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMississippis.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificU.S. Outlying IslandsMidway Islands 
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii 
4NaturalizedPacificNorthwestern PacificMarshall Islands  
4NaturalizedPacificNorthwestern PacificNorthern Mariana Islands  
4NaturalizedPacificNorthwestern PacificU.S. Outlying IslandsWake Island 
4NaturalizedPacificSouth-Central PacificCook Islands  
4NaturalizedPacificSouth-Central PacificFrench Polynesia  
4NaturalizedPacificSouth-Central PacificKiribatiLine Islands 
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificFiji  
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificNew Caledonia  
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificNiue  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCaribbeanWest Indies  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaBelize  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaCosta Rica  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaEl Salvador  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaGuatemala  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaHonduras  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaNicaragua  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaPanama  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaFrench Guiana  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaGuyana  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaSuriname  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuela  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaParaguay  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBolivia  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaEcuador  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaPeru  
6Other    exact native range obscure
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt (s.e.)
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • CHINA: China [Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Iran [Hormozgan]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia
  • NORTH INDIAN OCEAN: India [Andaman and Nicobar]
Pacific
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Asia-Tropical
  • NORTH INDIAN OCEAN: British Indian Ocean Terr [Diego Garcia]
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
Northern America
  • REGION: Mexico
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama (s.), Florida, Georgia, Mississippi (s.), South Carolina]
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: U.S. Outlying Islands [Midway Islands], United States [Hawaii]
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Outlying Islands [Wake Island]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, Kiribati [Line Islands], French Polynesia
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • CARIBBEAN: West Indies
  • MESOAMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Paraguay
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Other (exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Weed
(fide Pl Res SEAs 4:127. 1992) –


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