Taxon: Ischaemum timorense Kunth

Common names:

• centipede grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:148.) – English
  
• lucuntu grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:148.) – English
  
• waindoi grass   (Source: F Viti ) – English
  
• capim-centopéia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:148.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• 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)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya. (F Malaya)
• 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) [mentions].
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ischaemum timorense.

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

Check other databases for Ischaemum timorense Kunth:

• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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