Taxon: Imperata brasiliensis Trin.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, MA*, MS*, NC*, PR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Brazilian blady grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Brazilian satin-tail   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  
• capim-agreste   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-sapé   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• macega   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• sapé   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• sapé-macho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Trinidad and Tobago
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

      Naturalized:

• naturalized elsewhere, including s.e. United States

References:

• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1936. Manual of the grasses of the West Indies. (Grass WInd)
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Vergara, R. et al. 2008. Preliminary study using ISSRs to differentiate Imperata taxa (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) growing in the US. SouthE. Naturalist 7:267–276. [used ISSRs in order to differentiate morphotypes of this taxon from native (I. brevifolia) and weedy (I. cylindrica) taxa, based on UPGMA analysis found that this taxon appeared in a well supported cluster aside from cogongrass].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Imperata brasiliensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Imperata brasiliensis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Imperata brasiliensis Trin.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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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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?19863 (09 February 2010)

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