Taxon: Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C. E. Hubb.

Common names:

• Angleton bluestem   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Angleton grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• awned dichanthium   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• bluestem   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English
  
• mao geng shuang hua cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• hierba angleton   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• puntero   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia

• widely naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• 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)
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. 1976. Flora of Hassan district.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• 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).

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Andropogon aristatus Poir. (basionym)
  
• (=) Andropogon nodosus auct.
  

Check other web resources for Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C. E. Hubb.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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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• 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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