Taxon: Hemarthria altissima (Poir.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.

Common names:

• Batavian quick grass   (Source: Blumea 45:454. 2000) – English
  
• halt grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• limpo grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• red quick   (Source: R. P. Ellis, p.c.) – English
  
• red swamp grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  
• snake grass   (Source: Blumea 45:454. 2000) – English
  
• swamp couch   (Source: Blumea 45:454. 2000) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass Camer; Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  West Tropical Africa: Mali; Nigeria; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Tamil Nadu
  Indo-China: Myanmar [s.]; Thailand [n.]; Vietnam [s.]
  Malesia: Indonesia - Kalimantan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere, including s. United States

• AFRICA
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. [introduced].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• 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.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. [mentions].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Van Den Heuvel, E. & J. F. Veldkamp. 2000. Revision of Hemarthria (Gramineae-Andropogoneae-Rottboelliinae). Blumea 45:452.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hemarthria altissima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Hemarthria altissima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hemarthria altissima.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Manisuris altissima (Poir.) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Rottboellia altissima Poir. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Hemarthria altissima (Poir.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• 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.

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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