Taxon: Thuarea involuta (G. Forst.) R. Br. ex Sm.

• valid publication verified from original literature
• combination never actually made by R. Brown

• the 2 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• tropical beach grass   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide J. Veldkamp, pers. comm.)
  
• Weed   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar [e.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Hainan; Hong Kong
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [coasts]; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland

• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [in Thailand].
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-mer. 1969. Graminees des paturages et des cultures a Madagascar.
• Releford, J. S. et al. 2009. Flora of Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls, Republic of the Marshalls Islands. Atoll Res. Bull. 572:1–13.
• Salariato, D. L. et al. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of the subtribe Melinidinae (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) and evolutionary trends in the homogenization of inflorescences. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 56:355–369. [as a basal taxon].
• Tothill, J. C. & J. B. Hacker. 1982. The grasses of Southern Queensland, rev. ed.
• Veldkamp, J. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thuarea involuta.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Ischaemum involutum G. Forst. (basionym)
  
• (=) Thuarea sarmentosa Pers.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Thuarea involuta (G. Forst.) R. Br. ex Sm.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

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.

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