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Taxon:  Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud.



Summary
Genus:
Phragmites
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Tribe:
Arundineae
Nomen number:
28094
Place of publication:
Nomencl. bot. ed. 2, 2:324. 1841
Verified:
08/18/2006 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
Arundo karka Retz.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Arundo roxburghii Kunth
Arundo vallatoria L.
Phragmites roxburghii (Kunth) Steud.
Phragmites vallatoria (L.) Veldkamp
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Reference(s)
  1. Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. Flora of Java. 1963-1968
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  3. Coode, M. J. E. et al., eds. A checklist of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Brunei Darussalam. 1996
  4. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  5. Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan. Flora of Taiwan, 2nd ed. 1993- Note: = P. vallatoria (L.) Veldkamp
  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=Phragmites+karka&quantity=1
  7. George, A. S., ed. Flora of Australia. 1980- Note: = P. vallatoria (L.) Veldkamp
  8. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  9. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  10. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000)
  11. Holttum, R. E. et al. A revised flora of Malaya. 1953-1971
  12. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  13. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
  14. Koyama, T. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. 1987
  15. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980
  16. Merrill, E. D. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. 1922-1926
  17. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  18. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  19. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
  20. Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. Flora of Kerala - grasses. 1991
  21. Thulin, M., ed. Flora of Somalia. 1993-
  22. Turner, I. M. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bull. Singapore vol. 47. 1995 Note: = P. vallatoria (L.) Veldkamp
  23. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  24. Veldkamp, J. F. 1992. Miscellaneous notes on Southeast Asian Gramineae. VII. Blumea 37:233. Note: = P. vallatoria (L.) Veldkamp
  25. Wood, J. R. I. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
  26. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  27. Zon, A. P. M. van der. Graminées du Cameroun. 1992
Common names
English
tropical reed –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEritrea  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSomalia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBenin  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNiger  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaFujian 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdong 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxi 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHainan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaSichuan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnans.
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaArunachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAssam 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaBihar 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaDelhi 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHimachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaJammu and Kashmir 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKarnataka 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKerala 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMadhya Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMaharashtra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaManipur 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMeghalaya 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaNagaland 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaOrissa 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTamil Nadu 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTripura 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaUttar Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaWest Bengal 
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-TropicalMalesiaBrunei Darussalam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueenslandn.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaSouth Australian.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australian.
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
  • CHINA: China [Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan (s.), Guangxi, Hainan]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India [Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi, Arunachal Pradesh], Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland (n.), South Australia (n.), Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory]
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