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Taxon: Ischaemum ciliare Retz.

Genus: Ischaemum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 20473
Place of publication: Observ. bot. 6:26 ("36"). 1791
Name verified on: 08-Dec-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Oct-2001
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • batiki-bluegrass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Indian murainagrass   (Source: F NAmer [as I. indicum]) – English
  • smut grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:142.) – English

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: erosion control; lawn/turf   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:142-144. 1992; F Viti)
  • Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:142-144. 1992)
  • Weed   (fide F Viti; Atlas WWeeds, as I. aristatum)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China [s.e.]
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
    Malesia: Malaysia

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:142–144.
  • Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP) [= I. indicum (Houtt.) Merr.].
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon) [= I. indicum (Houtt.) Merr.].
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer) [= I. indicum].
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya. (F Malaya) [= I. indicum (Houtt.) Merr.].
  • Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan) [= I. indicum (Houtt.) Merr.].
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India) [= I. indicum (Houtt.) Merr.].
  • Veldkamp, J. F. 1991. Miscellaneous notes on Southeast Asian Gramineae. VI. Blumea 36:180–181.
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ischaemum ciliare Retz.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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
  • 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:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20473 (09 February 2010)

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