Taxon: Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss.

Common names:

• rice millet   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• smilo   (Source: Federal Seed Act ) – English
  
• smilo grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• erba smilo   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch.
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. [= Oryzopsis milacea].
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [= Oryzopsis milacea (L.) Asch. & Schweinf.].
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [= Oryzopsis milacea].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Piptatherum miliaceum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Piptatherum miliaceum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Piptatherum miliaceum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Agrostis miliacea L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Oryzopsis miliacea (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex Asch. & Schweinf.
  (previously associated with 133 accessions)

Check other web resources for Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• 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:

• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence branch: 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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