Taxon: Hyparrhenia rufa (Nees) Stapf

Common names:

• giant thatching grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  
• jaragua grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• geelaartamboekiegras   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – Afrikaans
  
• braunes Deckgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Jaraguagras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• capim-jaraguá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jaraguá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• yaragua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Book; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania [incl. Pemba, Zanzibar]; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Mauritania; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Myanmar
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  South America [tropical]

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  South America [tropical]

References:

• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Burkill, H. M. 1994. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kress, W. J. et al. 2003. A checklist of the trees, shrubs, herbs, and climbers of Myanmar. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 45.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hyparrhenia rufa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Hyparrhenia rufa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hyparrhenia rufa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Andropogon rufus (Nees) Kunth
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (≡) Cymbopogon rufus (Nees) Rendle
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (≡) Trachypogon rufus Nees (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Hyparrhenia rufa (Nees) Stapf:

• 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 of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• 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:

• Spikelets and/or 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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