Taxon: Pennisetum macrourum Trin.
Genus: Pennisetum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 27197
Place of publication: Gram. panic. 64. 1826
Name verified on: 07-Apr-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Nov-1994
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9). Accessions:
4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- A declared noxious weed by
USDA-APHIS.
- 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:
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FL*, MA*, NC*.
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| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

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Native:
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon; Zaire West Tropical Africa: Guinea; Nigeria; Togo South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Zambia; Zimbabwe Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Cape Province, Transvaal; Swaziland
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, United States (California), & Mascarenes
- 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)
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
- Plant Protection and Quarantine Office.
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Thulin, M., ed.
1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Pennisetum macrourum Trin.:
- 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
- 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:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?27197 (09 February 2010)
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