Taxon: Ehrharta calycina Sm.

Common names:

• perennial veldt grass   (Source: Grass VarUSA ) – English
  
• veldt grass   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• ehrharta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• ehrharta   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; Namibia [s.]; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ehrharta calycina.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ehrharta calycina.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ehrharta calycina.

Check other web resources for Ehrharta calycina Sm.:

• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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
• 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:

• Spikelet and florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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