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Taxon: Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin.

Genus: Pennisetum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 27206
Place of publication: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math., Seconde Pt. Sci. Nat. 3,1(2-3):184. 1834
Name verified on: 07-Apr-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-Oct-2001
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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:
FL*, MA*, NC*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • annual kyasuwa grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • hairy fountain grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • kayasuwa grass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  • kyasuwa grass   (Source: World Worst Weeds ) – English
  • falso-capim-custódio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Economic importance:

  • Animal food: fodder   (fide Euphytica 97:15. 1997)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Euphytica 97:5-6. 1997)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Cape Verde
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Sudan
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon [n.]
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo
    South Tropical Africa: Zambia
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India [e.]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere, including United States (Florida)

References:

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Check other databases for Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin.:

  • 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
  • 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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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?27206 (09 February 2010)

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