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Taxon: Ischaemum rugosum Salisb.

Genus: Ischaemum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 20489
Place of publication: Icon. stirp. rar. 1, t. 1. 1791
Name verified on: 15-Dec-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-2003
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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*, NC*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • murain grass   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  • muraino grass   (Source: NPB State Noxweeds [http://nationalplantboard.org/docs/summaries/florida.pdf]) – English
  • ribbed muraina grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • saramatta grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:146.) – English
  • wrinkled duck-beak   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:146.) – English
  • wrinkled grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:146.) – English
  • capim-macho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • capim-pelego   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • mata-colono   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China [s.e.]
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan - Punjab; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [e.]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere in tropics, including Mexico

References:

More:

Check other databases for Ischaemum rugosum Salisb.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • 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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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?20489 (09 February 2010)

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