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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: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 67 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • 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
  • Japanese pampas grass   (Source: web document) – English    [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
  • Japanese silver grass   (Source: web document) – English    [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
  • miscanthus   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • pampas grass   (Source: web document) – English    [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
  • purple silver grass   (Source: not available) – English   [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. purpurascens]
  • wild sugar cane   (Source: web document) – English    [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
  • zebra grass   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • 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
  • obana   (Source: web document) – Japanese Rōmaji    [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
  • susuki   (Source: web document) – Japanese Rōmaji    [Miscanthus sinensis subsp. sinensis]
  • capim-zebra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • eulália   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  • Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of sugarcane; potential gene source for biomass energy plants   (fide J Amer Soc Sugar Cane Technol 11:39. 1991; web document)
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Distributional range:

      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

References:

  • 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. Journal of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (J Amer Soc Sugarcane) 17:38–50. [reports cytological counts of crosses made by Tai et al. (1991) using accession US 47-0011 (as "US- 47-11") with a sugarcane cultivar, where F1 clones where 2n=94 as the non-desired n+2n type].
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica. (F InnMong)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Guangdong Inst. Bot., ed. 1964–1977. Flora Hainanica. (F Hainan)
  • 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. (F Guangd)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. (F Manshur)
  • Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
  • Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
  • Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. (F LowYangtze)
  • 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. (Grass USSR)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Miscanthus sinensis Andersson:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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
  • 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:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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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