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:

FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

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)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

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:

• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Cabo Verde)
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• 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)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
• Holm, L. G. et al. 1977. The world's worst weeds: distribution and biology. (World Worst Weeds)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Schmelzer, G. H. 1997. Review of Pennisetum section Brevivalvula (Poaceae). Euphytica 97:4.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
• 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)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pennisetum pedicellatum.

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

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:

• 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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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?27206 (09 February 2010)

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