Taxon: Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Rudge) Nees

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• olive hymenachne   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• West Indian marsh grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• camalote   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Paraguay; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Burger, W. C., ed. 1971–. Flora costaricensis.
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Clarkson, J. R. et al. 2011. A report of hybridisation in Hymenachne (Poaceae, Panicoideae) with description of Hymenachne × calamitosa, a new species of hybrid origin from tropical Australia. Telopea 13:105–114.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998–. Flora de la República de Cuba.
• Kress, W. J. et al. 2003. A checklist of the trees, shrubs, herbs, and climbers of Myanmar. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 45.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 2000. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:331.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:252.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Hymenachne amplexicaulis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Hymenachne amplexicaulis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Hymenachne amplexicaulis.

Check other web resources for Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Rudge) Nees:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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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