Taxon: Panicum coloratum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Panicum coloratum var. coloratum (1 accessions)
• Panicum coloratum var. makarikariense (11 accessions)

Common names:

• Klein grass   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• small buffalo grass   (Source: Kellerman et al.1988)
  
• white buffalo grass   (Source: Grass SAfr )
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona

Other:

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer) [only typical var.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Panicum coloratum.

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

Synonyms:

• Panicum makarikariense (Gooss.) Rensb. [≡ Panicum coloratum var. makarikariense]
  (previously associated with 17 accessions)
• Panicum swynnertonii Rendle [= Panicum coloratum var. coloratum]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other databases for Panicum coloratum L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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