Taxon: Leersia hexandra Sw.

• the 9 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• cutgrass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• swamp ricegrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• boiadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-marreca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• grama-boiadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• grama-do-brejo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• pantropic in wetlands

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Judziewicz, E. J. et al. 2000. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 39:65.
• Kahn, F. et al. 1993. Las plantas vasculares en las aguas continentales del Peru. IFEA, Lima, Peru.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Rodenburg, J. et al. 2011. Challenges for weed management in African rice systems in a changing climate. J. Agric. Sci. (Cambridge) 149:427–435.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:60.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Leersia hexandra.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Leersia hexandra.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Leersia hexandra.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Homalocenchrus hexandrus (Sw.) Kuntze
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other web resources for Leersia hexandra Sw.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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