      
Taxon: Miscanthus sinensis Andersson
Genus: Miscanthus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 24493
Place of publication: Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12:166. 1856
Name verified on: 07-Oct-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Oct-2009
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
Accessions:
46 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- Chinese silver grass (Source: Zander ed17
[as M. sinensis]) – English [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- eulalia (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- eulalia (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- euly (Source: Grass Japan
) – English [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- maiden grass (Source: Pl Names
[as M. sinensis]) – English [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- miscanthus (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- purple silver grass (Source: Pl Names
[as Miscanthus purpurascens Andersson]) – English [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. purpurascens]
- zebra grass (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- zebra grass (Source: Pl Names
[as M. sinensis]) – English [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- eulalie (Source: Zander ed17
[as M. sinensis]) – French [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- Chinaschilf (Source: Zander ed17
[as M. sinensis]) – German [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- Schilfgras (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- Schilfgras (Source: Pl Names
[as M. sinensis]) – German [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- susuki (Source: F Korea
) – Japanese Rōmaji [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
- eogsae (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:110) – Transcribed Korean
- capim-zebra (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- eulália (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- strandmiskantus (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. condensatus]
- More:
- Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard)
- Gene sources: potential gene source for biomass energy plants (fide Biomass Bioenergy 25:345-346. 2003)
- Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of sugarcane (fide J Amer Soc Sugar Cane Technol 11:39. 1991)
- More:
Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kurile Islands [s.], Primorye [s.], Sakhalin [s.]
China: China [e.]
Eastern Asia: Japan [throughout]; Korea; Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes; Philippines
Naturalized: - naturalized elsewhere, including United States
Cultivated:
- Atienza, S. G. et al.
2002. Preliminary genetic linkage map of Miscanthus sinensis with RAPD markers.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
105:946–952. [diploid (2n=38) plants were used to construct the genetic map for analysis of agronomically interesting characters for biomass production].
- Burner, D. M.
1997. Chromosome transmission and meiotic behavior in various sugarcane crosses.
J. Amer. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol.
17:38–50.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Fu, Y. C. et al.
1977–. Flora intramongolica.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Guangdong Inst. Bot., ed.
1964–1977. Flora Hainanica.
- Hodkinson, T. R. et al.
2002. Phylogenetics of Miscanthus, Saccharum and related genera (Saccharinae, Andropogoneae, Poaceae) based on DNA sequences from ITS nuclear ribosomal DNA and plastid trnL intron and trnL-F intergenic spacers.
J. Pl. Res.
115:381–392. [this study revealed a polyphyletic Miscanthus, all accessions examined of this taxon clustered in an unresolved clade (as Miscanthus s. str.) sister to the Saccharum complex].
- How, F. C., ed.
1956. Flora of Kwangchow.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- Kitagawa, M.
1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
- Koyama, T.
1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
- Lazarides, M.
1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
- Lewandowski, I. et al.
2003. The development and current status of perennial rhizomatous grasses as energy crops in the US and Europe.
Biomass Bioenergy
25:345–346.
- Li, H. L. et al., eds.
1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Merrill, E. D.
1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
- Meyer, M. H.
2012. Chapter 3. Ornamental grasses in the United States.
Hort. Rev.
39:121–151.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:110.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Steward, A. N.
1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley.
- Tai, P. Y. P. et al.
1991. Phenotypic characteristics of F2 and BC1 progenies from sugarcane intergeneric crosses.
11:38–47. [this study using USDA accessions (as PI 3905 & US 47-11) of this taxon (as paternal donor) for crosses with sugarcane cultivars under a combined lab-field conditions, putative hybrids were evaluated only for sucrose, Brix, fiber & stalk features].
- Tzvelev, N. N.
1976. Zlaki SSSR.
- Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Miscanthus sinensis Andersson:
Images:
- 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.
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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?24493 (25 May 2013)
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