      
Taxon: Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.
Genus: Pennisetum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 27208
Place of publication: Beskr. Guin. pl. 44. 1827
Comment: authorship verified from original literature, where the name and diagnosis together (Vienna ICBN Art. 46, Ex. 14) and the description are all ascribed to Schumacher
Name verified on: 04-Mar-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Mar-2009
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions:
5 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- 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:
-
PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from
- elephant grass (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- Merker grass (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- Napier grass (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- olifantsgras (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans
- napier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Elefantengras (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- capim-elefante (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- capim-napiê (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-napier-elefante (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- hierba elefante (Source: Grass Cuba II
) – Spanish
- pasto elefante (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
- Environmental: erosion control; ornamental (fide Grass US; F NAmer)
- Animal food: fodder; forage (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:191. 1992)
- Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of pearl millet (fide Rao & de Wet 1999)
- Weed: also potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
Native:
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia [s.]
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in s. Africa, tropical Asia, Australia, s. United States & Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies, Macaronesia, Micronesia, & Galapagos
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
4:191.
- Burkill, H. M.
1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Catasús Guerra, L. J.
Cavanillesia Altera
- 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)
- Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
- Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed.
1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rao, S. A. & J. M. J. de Wet.
1999. Chapter 2. Taxonomy and evolution. IN Khairwal, I. S. et al. (eds.) Pearl millet breeding.
31–47. [in this review it is recognized as part of secondary gene pool of pearl millet].
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Tovar, Ó.
1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú.
Ruizia
13:408.
- 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)
- Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
A:220.
- 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.
- Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.:
Images:
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- 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].
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Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?27208 (09 February 2010)
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