Taxon: Eragrostis tef (Zuccagni) Trotter

Common names:

• Abyssinian love grass   (Source: Blumea 47:186. 2002) – English
  
• tef   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – English
  
• teff   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• teff grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• teff   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Human food: cereal   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Book; Grass SAfr)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• sometimes naturalized elsewhere

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Cheverton, M. R. & G. P. Chapman. 1989. Ethiopian t'ef: a cereal confined to its centre of variability. In: Wickens, G. E. et al., eds., New crops for food and industry. 235–238.
• 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).
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Ingram, A. L. & J. J. Doyle. 2003. The origin and evolution of Eragrostis tef (Poaceae) and related polyploids: evidence from nuclear waxy and plastid rps16. Amer. J. Bot. 90:116–122.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Ketema, S. 1997. Tef. Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 12:1–52.
• Lazarides, M. 1997. A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 10:157.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• 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).
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 2002. Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47:186.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eragrostis tef.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eragrostis tef.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eragrostis tef.

Synonyms:

• (=) Eragrostis abyssinica (Jacq.) Link
  (previously associated with 33 accessions)
• (=) Poa abyssinica Jacq.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Poa tef Zuccagni (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Eragrostis tef (Zuccagni) Trotter:

• 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
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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