Taxon: Melinis minutiflora P. Beauv.

Common names:

• Brazilian stink grass   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  
• efwatakala grass   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• molasses grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• stink grass   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  
• Wynne grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tang mi cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• herbe à miel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• melinide   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• chopín   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pasto de gordura   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass Camer; Food Feed Crops US; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Plant Invasion; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Indo-China: Indochina
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Niue; Tonga; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - Galapagos Islands; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

References:

• Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. Pp. 255–267 in: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden with others. A Catalogue of the vascular plants of Madagascar (on-line resource).
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:396.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zizka, G. 1988. Revision der Melinideae Hitchcock (Poaceae, Panicoideae). Biblioth. Bot. 138:92.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:287.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Melinis tenuinervis Stapf
  
• (=) Panicum melinis Trin.
  

Check other web resources for Melinis minutiflora P. Beauv.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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