Taxon: Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult.
Genus: Pennisetum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 27207
Place of publication: Mant. 2:146. 1824
Name verified on: 07-Apr-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Oct-1999
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9). Accessions:
3 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:
-
FL*, MA*, NC*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:
- feather pennisetum (Source: Pl Res SEAs
) – English
- mission grass (Source: World Worst Weeds
) – English
- thin Napier grass (Source: Mansf Ency
) – English
- capim-avião (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-custódio (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-mandante (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-oferecido (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Cape Verde Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon; Zaire West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in tropical Asia, Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, & Hawaii
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
4:189.
- 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)
- Catasús Guerra, L. J.
Cavanillesia Altera
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
5:2673.
- 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)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- 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)
- Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Schmelzer, G. H.
1997. Review of Pennisetum section Brevivalvula (Poaceae).
Euphytica
97:6.
- 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)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Zuloaga, F. O. et al.
2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae.
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
46:533.
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult.:
Images:
- 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.
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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?27207 (09 February 2010)
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