Taxon: Saccharum ravennae (L.) L.

• Linnaeus is author of the new names in Syst. veg. ed. 13
• Murray was simply editor, fide TL-2 3:110, 670. 1981

Common names:

• Italian sugarcane   (Source: F Iraq ) – English
  
• plume grass   (Source: F Iraq ) – English
  
• Ravenna grass   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• sockergräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (for erosion control fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F Iraq; Hortus 3, as Erianthus ravennae)
  
• Animal food: forage   (when young fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of sugarcane   (fide J Pl Res 115:387. 2002, based on phylogenetic affinities with S. arundinaceum; Crop Sci 49:865. 2009, citing a 1941 report of hybridization with S. spontaneum)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Xinjiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Besse, P. et al. 1996. Ribosomal DNA variations in Erianthus, a wild sugarcane relative (Andropogoneae-Saccharinae). Theor. Appl. Genet. 92:733–743. [this study used both USDA (as US 67-8-1 & US 59-27-11) & non-USDA accessions of this taxon (as Erianthus elephantinus& E. ravennae) finding that they share similar units of RNA & cytotypes supporting the recognition of one taxon].
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Cordeiro, G. M. et al. 2003. Sugarcane microsatellites for the assessment of genetic diversity in sugarcane germplasm. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 165:181–189.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). [= Tripidium ravennae (L.) H. Scholtz].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Grassl, C. O. 1972. Taxonomy of Saccharum relatives: Sclerostachya, Narenga, and Erianthus. Proc. Int. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol. 14:244. [based on floral structures & growth type, Grassl accepted the recognition of this Old World taxon in the genus Ripidium Trin., unaware of its nomenclatural unavailable status].
• Hodkinson, T. R. et al. 2002. Phylogenetics of Miscanthus, Saccharum and related genera (Saccharinae, Andropogoneae, Poaceae) based on DNA sequences from ITS nuclear ribosomal DNA and plastid trnL intron and trnL-F intergenic spacers. J. Pl. Res. 115:381–392. [a phylogeny of the genus Miscanthus included sequences from this taxon (as S. ravennae Murr.) that clustered sister to S. arundinaceum & finding support of and Old World group (Ripidium) distant from Saccharum].
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Lambert, A. M. et al. 2010. Invasive species and fire in Califronia ecosystems. Fremontia 38:29–36.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Meyer, M. H. 2012. Chapter 3. Ornamental grasses in the United States. Hort. Rev. 39:121–151.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [lists as S. ravennae (L.) Murray].
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. [= Erianthus ravennae (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Wang, X.-H. et al. 2009. Molecular identification of Saccharum spp. × Erianthus fulvus hybrids using sequence-characterized amplified region markers. Crop Sci. (Madison) 49:865.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:555.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Andropogon ravennae L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Erianthus elephantinus Hook. f.
  
• (=) Erianthus purpurascens Andersson
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Erianthus ravennae (L.) P. Beauv.
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)

Check other web resources for Saccharum ravennae (L.) L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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