Taxon: Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin.

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:

AL*, FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• annual kyasuwa grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• deenanth grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• hairy fountain grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• kyasuwa grass   (Source: World Worst Weeds ) – English
  
• falso-capim-custódio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; 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.]

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil

References:

• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Brunken, J. N. 1979. Morphometric variation and the classification of Pennisetum section Brevivalvula (Gramineae) in tropical Africa. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 79:51–64.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chemisquy, M. A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106:128. [= Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone].
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Holm, L. G. et al. 1977. The world's worst weeds: distribution and biology.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Meyer, M. H. 2012. Chapter 3. Ornamental grasses in the United States. Hort. Rev. 39:121–152.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Schmelzer, G. H. & J.-F. Renno. 1999. Genotypic variation in progeny of the agamic grass complex Pennisetum section Brevivalvula in west Africa. Pl. Syst. Evol. 215:71–83.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. 1991. Flora of Kerala - grasses.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pennisetum pedicellatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pennisetum pedicellatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pennisetum pedicellatum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone
  

Check other web resources for Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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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