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Taxon: Panicum repens L.

Genus: Panicum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 26620
Place of publication: Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:87. 1762
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Jan-2003
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
AL*, AZª*°, HIª*°, TXª.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • couch panicum   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  • torpedo grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Victoria grass   (Source: Blumea 41:203. 1996) – English
  • millet rampant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • panic rampant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • kriechende Hirse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • grama-da-praia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • grama-de-ponta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • grama-portuguesa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • canota   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
    South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
    Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
    Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    China: China [s.e.]
    Eastern Asia: Japan - Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India - Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Indochina; Thailand
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  • widely naturalized in tropics & subtropics, including Australia, United States (s.e., & California, & Hawaii), Central America, South America, West Indies, Azores, & Seychelles

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:176.
  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Andrews, F. W. 1950–1956. The flowering plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. (F Sudan)
  • Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
  • Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
  • Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
  • Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
  • Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. (L Maroc)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. (F Saudi ed3)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak) [mentions].
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran) [mentions].
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
  • Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
  • Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. 1991. Flora of Kerala - grasses. (Grass Kerala)
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia) [mentions].
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Revision of Panicum and Whiteochloa in Malesia (Gramineae-Paniceae). Blumea 41:202.
  • Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
  • Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
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Check other databases for Panicum repens L.:

  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • 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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