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Taxon:
Imperata cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Imperata
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
19864
Place of publication:
Ess. Agrostogr. 8, 165, 177, t. 5, fig. 1. 1812 (E. A. Raeuschel, Nomencl. bot. 10. 1797, nom. nud.)
Comment:
Raeuschel gives no evidence his
I. cylindrica
, nom. nud. is based on
Lagurus cylindricus
L.
his adoption of
Imperata
whose only prior species included
L. cylindricus
in synonymy isn't enough (Melbourne ICN Art. 41.4)
Verified:
07/15/1999
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
4
(
4
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
(Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Lagurus cylindricus
L.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Imperata arundinacea
Cirillo
Imperata cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv. subsp.
koenigii
(Retz.) Masam. & Yanagita
Imperata cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv. var.
koenigii
(Retz.) Perkins
Imperata cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv. var.
major
(Nees) C. E. Hubb.
Imperata koenigii
P. Beauv.
Imperata koenigii
P. Beauv. var.
major
Nees
Saccharum koenigii
Retz.
No images
Reference(s)
Abbiw, D. K.
Useful plants of Ghana. 1990
Note:
Intermediate Technology Publications & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Bor, N. L.
The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Boulos, L.
Flora of Egypt. 1999-
Cameron, A. G. et al.
1995. Performance of forages introduced into Kalimantan, Indonesia, by the South-East Asian Forage Seeds Project. Genet. Res. Commun. 21:2.
Chaudhary, S. A.
Weeds of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula. 1987
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
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria.
Australian plant census (APC) (on-line resource).
http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/apc/index.html
Davis, P. H., ed.
Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Euro+Med Editorial Committee.
Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
Flora zambesiaca. 1960-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
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=Imperata+cylindrica&quantity=1
George, A. S., ed.
Flora of Australia. 1980-
Ghazanfar, S. A.
An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. 1992
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. 1993
Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000)
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Hitchcock, A. S.
Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. 1950
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Holm, L. et al.
A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979
Holttum, R. E. et al.
A revised flora of Malaya. 1953-1971
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Huxley, A., ed.
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
http://www.hear.org/pier/index.html
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. 2004
http://www.gobcan.es/cmayot/interreg/atlantico/documentos/LESDCanarias.pdf
Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Koyama, T.
Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. 1987
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Lazarides, M.
The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Mouterde, P.
Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. 1966-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Padua, L. S. de et al., eds.
1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 12(1):310.
http://proseanet.org
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
Price, S.
1957. Cytological studies in
Saccharum
and allied genera. III. Chromosome numbers in interspecific hybrids. Bot. Gaz. 118:146-159.
Rechinger, K. H., ed.
Flora iranica. 1963-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5090172
Shukla, U.
Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Soerjani, M. et al., eds.
1987. Weeds of rice in Indonesia. 1987 434.
Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair.
Flora of Kerala - grasses. 1991
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:140-142.
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
Flora of Iraq. 1966-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
Flora europaea. 1964-1980
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Tzvelev, N. N.
Zlaki SSSR. 1976
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) P. Beauv.
USDA National Agricultural Library.
National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
Note:
http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/cogongrass.shtml
Weber, E.
Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003
Wood, J. R. I.
A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
Zon, A. P. M. van der.
Graminées du Cameroun. 1992
Note:
lists as
I. cylindrica
(L.) Raeusch.
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
alang-alang –
Reference(s)
blady grass –
Reference(s)
cogon –
Reference(s)
cogongrass –
Reference(s)
cotton-wool grass –
Reference(s)
imperata –
Reference(s)
Japanese blood grass –
Reference(s)
kunai grass –
Reference(s)
kura-kura –
Reference(s)
Arabic
halfa –
Reference(s)
shishmallah –
Reference(s)
French
impérate –
Reference(s)
Japanese Rōmaji
chi-gaya –
Reference(s)
fushige-chi-gaya –
Reference(s)
Malay
lalang –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
caminhadora –
Reference(s)
sapé –
Reference(s)
Swedish
bomullsgräs –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
bai mao –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Kenya
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Tanzania
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Uganda
Native
Africa
Macaronesia
Portugal
Madeira Islands
Native
Africa
Macaronesia
Spain
Canary Islands
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Chad
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Eritrea
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Ethiopia
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Sudan
Native
Africa
Northern Africa
Algeria
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Native
Africa
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
MACARONESIA:
Spain
[Canary Islands],
Portugal
[Madeira Islands]
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Eritrea
,
Ethiopia
,
Sudan
,
Chad
NORTHERN AFRICA:
Algeria
,
Egypt
,
Libya
,
Morocco
,
Tunisia
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola
,
Mozambique
,
Malawi
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Botswana
,
Lesotho
,
Namibia
,
Eswatini
,
South Africa
[Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin
,
Burkina Faso
,
Côte D'Ivoire
,
Ghana
,
Guinea
,
Gambia
,
Guinea-Bissau
,
Liberia
,
Mali
,
Niger
,
Nigeria
,
Senegal
,
Sierra Leone
,
Togo
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burundi
,
Central African Republic
,
Cameroon
,
Congo
,
Gabon
,
Rwanda
,
Zaire
Asia-Temperate
ARABIAN PENINSULA:
Oman
,
Saudi Arabia
,
Yemen
CAUCASUS:
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
,
Georgia
,
Russian Federation
[Dagestan]
CHINA:
China
EASTERN ASIA:
Korea
,
Japan
[Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku]
MIDDLE ASIA:
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
,
Turkmenistan
,
Uzbekistan
WESTERN ASIA:
Afghanistan
,
Cyprus
,
Egypt
[Sinai],
Iran
,
Iraq
,
******
,
Jordan
,
Lebanon
,
Syria
,
Turkey
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bhutan
,
India
,
Sri Lanka
,
Nepal
,
Pakistan
INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia
,
Laos
,
Myanmar
,
Thailand
,
Vietnam
MALESIA:
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
,
Philippines
,
Papua New Guinea
Australasia
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
[Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia (n.e.), Northern Territory]
Europe
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Albania
,
Bulgaria
,
Greece
(incl. Crete),
Croatia
,
Italy
(incl. Sardinia, Sicily),
Slovenia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain
(incl. Baleares),
France
(s. & Corsica),
Portugal
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
MACARONESIA:
Cabo Verde
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Madagascar
,
Seychelles
Asia-Tropical
INDO-CHINA:
Thailand
MALESIA:
Papua New Guinea
Australasia
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
[Lord Howe Island]
NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand
Northern America
REGION:
United States
Pacific
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States
[Hawaii]
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Micronesia
,
Guam
,
Northern Mariana Islands
,
Palau
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
American Samoa
,
Vanuatu
Southern America
REGION:
South America
CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
MESOAMERICA:
Central America
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Chile
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
erosion control (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:140-142. 1992) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):310. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2, as
I. cylindrica
var.
major
) –
Reference(s)
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses