      
Taxon: Chloris virgata Sw.
Genus: Chloris
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Chloridoideae tribe: Cynodonteae.
Nomen number: 10289
Place of publication: Fl. Ind. occid. 1:203. 1797
Name verified on: 31-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 31-Mar-2004
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
Accessions:
15 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- feather finger grass (Source: Names Beetle
) – English
- feather windmill grass (Source: F NAmer
) – English
- feathered chloris (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- feathertop grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- feathertop Rhodes grass (Source: Econ Pl Aust
) – English
- feathery Rhodes grass (Source: F BritStace
) – English
- hairy Rhodes grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- oldland grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- sweet grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- woolly-top Rhodes grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- klossiegras (Source: Grass SAfr
) – Afrikaans
- Feder-Fingergras (Source: Zander Ency
) – German
- verdillo plumerito (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- zacate pluma (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
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Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West Tropical Africa: Mali; Niger; Nigeria
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape; Swaziland
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Arabia
Western Asia: Afghanistan
Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Dagestan
Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
Mongolia: Mongolia
Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
China: China - Xinjiang
Eastern Asia: Japan - Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands; Korea; Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New Jersey
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
Mexico
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Martinique
Mesoamerica: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
Northern South America: Venezuela
Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: United Kingdom
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
Cultivated:
- AFRICA
East Tropical Africa: Kenya
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]
- Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong.
Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
[doubtfully native].
- Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds.
1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
- Beetle, A. A.
1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- Euro+Med Editorial Committee.
Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Froman, B. & S. Persson.
1974. An illustrated guide to the grasses of Ethiopia.
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
- Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1936. Manual of the grasses of the West Indies.
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Instituto de Botánica Darwinion.
2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993–. Flora of Japan.
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
- Koyama, T.
1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McVaugh, R.
1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
- Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
- Peterson, P. M. et al.
2001. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae.
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
41:52. [either native or naturalized].
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Renvoize, S. A.
1998. Gramineas de Bolivia.
- Shukla, U.
1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
- Stace, C.
1995. New flora of the British Isles.
- Thulin, M., ed.
1993–. Flora of Somalia.
- Tovar, Ó.
1993. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú.
Ruizia
13:282.
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Tzvelev, N. N.
1976. Zlaki SSSR.
- Ugarte, E. et al.
2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile.
Check List
7:365–382.
- Veldkamp, J. F.
1997. pers. comm.
[re. common names].
- Wagner, W. L. et al.
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
1966–. Flora palaestina.
- Zon, A. P. M. van der.
1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
- Zuloaga, F. O. et al.
1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
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Synonyms:
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Images:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
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inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
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