Taxon: Cynodon plectostachyus (K. Schum.) Pilg.

Common names:

• giant star grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• star grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• estrela-africana   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• estrella   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.)
  

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View toxicology references for Cynodon plectostachyus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Clayton, W. D. & J. R. Harlan. 1970. The genus Cynodon L. C. Rich. in tropical Africa. Kew Bull. 24:185.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harlan, J. R. et al. 1969. Hybridization studies with Cynodon from East Africa and Malagasy. Amer. J. Bot. 56:945.
• Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. A guide to the species of Cynodon (Gramineae). Bull. Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Sta. B–673:32.
• Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. Geographic distribution of the species of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). E. African Agric. Forest. J. 36:221.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• de Wet, J. M. J. & J. R. Harlan. 1970. Biosystematics of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). Taxon 19:567.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cynodon plectostachyus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cynodon plectostachyus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cynodon plectostachyus.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Leptochloa plectostachyus K. Schum. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Cynodon plectostachyus (K. Schum.) Pilg.:

• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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