Taxon: Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera (no accessions)

Common names:

• gulf barnyard grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  
• South American barnyard grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA; Atlas WWeed)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Zambia
  Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Cape Province [e. & s.], KwaZulu-Natal
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.e.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Washington [c.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina [e.], Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:338–339.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:216.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Echinochloa crus-pavonis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Echinochloa crus-pavonis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Echinochloa crus-pavonis.

Synonyms:

• Echinochloa zelayensis var. macera Wiegand [≡ Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera]
  
• (≡) Oplismenus crus-pavonis Kunth (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult.:

• 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• 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.

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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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