Eriochloa sericea information from NPGS/GRIN

United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
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Taxon: Eriochloa sericea (Scheele) Munro ex Vasey

Genus: Eriochloa
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 15621
Place of publication: Bull. Div. Bot. U.S.D.A. 12(1): t. 1. 1890
Name verified on: 02-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Dec-2005
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.

Common names:

Texas cup grass (Source: F NAmer ) – English

Economic importance:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas [e.], Nebraska [n.e.], Oklahoma
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
Shaw, R. B. & R. Webster. 1987. The genus Eriochloa (Poaceae: Paniceae) in North and Central America. Sida 12:199.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eriochloa sericea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eriochloa sericea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eriochloa sericea.

Synonyms:

(≡) Paspalum sericeum Scheele (basionym)

Check other web resources for Eriochloa sericea (Scheele) Munro ex Vasey:

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
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.

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

Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?15621 (25 May 2013)

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