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Taxon: Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus

Genus: Microstegium
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 316751
Place of publication: Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon sér. 2, 68:201. 1921
Name verified on: 29-Apr-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-2003
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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:
AL*, CT*, MA*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • Asian stilt grass   (Source: web document) – English
  • Japanese stilt grass   (Source: web document) – English
  • Nepal grass   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  • Nepalese browntop   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • Vietnamese stilt grass   (Source: web document) – English

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye [s.]
    China: China
    Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido [s.e.], Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India [n.e.]; Nepal
    Indo-China: Indochina; Thailand
    Malesia: Philippines

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere, including United States

References:

  • 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)
  • Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
  • Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
  • Redman, D. E. 1995. Castanea 60:270–275.
  • Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
More:

Check other databases for Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus:

  • 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:

More:
  • 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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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?316751 (09 February 2010)

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