Taxon: Ischaemum rugosum Salisb.

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

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:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:146. 1992)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:146. 1992; Weed CIBA)
  

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:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:146.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya. (F Malaya)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries. (NPB State Noxweeds) [re. common names for noxious weeds of Florida].
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ischaemum rugosum.

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

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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit: 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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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?20489 (09 February 2010)

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