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Taxon: Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton

Genus: Rottboellia
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 310370
Place of publication: Kew Bull. 35:817. 1981
Name verified on: 13-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Mar-2003
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

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:
AR(as Rottboellia exaltata)*°, FL*, LA°, LA(as Rottboellia exaltata)°, MA*, MS*, NC°, PR*, SC(as Rottboellia exaltata)°, TN(as Rottboellia exaltata)°, TX*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • guinea-fowl grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  • itchgrass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Kelly grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • kokoma grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  • Raoul grass   (Source: World Worst Weeds [as R. exaltata]) – English

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
    Southern Africa: Botswana [n.]; Namibia; South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China [s.e.]
    Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - New South Wales [e.], Northern Territory [n.], Queensland

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

References:

  • Boonman, J. G. 1993. East Africa's grasses and fodders: their ecology and husbandry. 136. [= R. exaltata L. f.].
  • Brummitt, R. K. 1985. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 29. Taxon 34:659–660. [proposal to conserve R. exaltata L. f. 1782 not recommended].
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
  • Holm, L. G. et al. 1977. The world's worst weeds: distribution and biology. (World Worst Weeds) [= R. exaltata].
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [= R. exaltata L. f.].
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
  • Simon, B. K. 1982. (667) Proposal to conserve the species name Rottboellia exaltata L. f. (Poaceae). Taxon 31:564–565.
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
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Check other databases for Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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
  • 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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