Taxon: Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.) S. T. Blake

See also subordinate taxa:

• Bothriochloa bladhii subsp. glabra (no accessions)

Common names:

• Australian bluestem   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• Burnett River-bluegrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Caucasian bluestem   (Source: Crop Sci 3:37. 1963 [as B. caucasica]) – English
  
• forest-bluegrass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• plains bluestem   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• purple plume grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  
• blouklosgras   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – Afrikaans
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA, as B. caucasica)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide AH 170)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide AH 170)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania [incl. Pemba, Zanzibar]; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Ghana; Nigeria; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.]; Kyrgyzstan
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia [tropical]

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Barbados; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix
  Southern South America: Argentina - La Pampa

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. [as Bothriochloa intermedia].
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Hanson, A. A. 1972. Grass varieties in the United States.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• 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).
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Newman, M. et al. 2007. New records of angiosperms and pteridophytes in the flora of Laos. Edinburgh J. Bot. 64:225–251.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tothill, J. C. & J. B. Hacker. 1982. The grasses of Southern Queensland, rev. ed.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bothriochloa bladhii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bothriochloa bladhii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bothriochloa bladhii.

Synonyms:

• (=) Amphilophis intermedia var. acidula (Stapf) Stapf
  
• (≡) Andropogon bladhii Retz. (basionym)
  
• (=) Andropogon caucasicus Trin.
  
• Andropogon glaber Roxb. [≡ Bothriochloa bladhii subsp. glabra]
  
• (=) Andropogon intermedius R. Br.
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)
• (=) Andropogon intermedius var. caucasicus (Trin.) Hack.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Andropogon pertusus var. vegetior Hack.
  
• (=) Bothriochloa caucasica (Trin.) C. E. Hubb.
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• Bothriochloa glabra (Roxb.) A. Camus [≡ Bothriochloa bladhii subsp. glabra]
  (previously associated with 79 accessions)
• (=) Bothriochloa insculpta var. vegetior (Hack.) C. E. Hubb.
  
• (=) Bothriochloa intermedia (R. Br.) A. Camus
  (previously associated with 215 accessions)
• (=) Bothriochloa intermedia var. punctata (Roxb.) Keng
  

Check other web resources for Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.) S. T. Blake:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images 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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