Taxon: Cynodon aethiopicus Clayton & J. R. Harlan

Common names:

• African stargrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Ethiopian dogtooth grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Nakuru grass   (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
  
• star grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: potential for erosion control   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide F TE Afr; F WT Afr)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.)
  

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View toxicology references for Cynodon aethiopicus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan [s.e.]
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda; Zaire [e.]
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique [n.w.]; Zambia; Zimbabwe

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. A guide to the species of Cynodon (Gramineae). Bull. Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Sta. B–673:6.
• Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. Geographic distribution of the species of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). E. African Agric. Forest. J. 36:222.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• de Wet, J. M. J. & J. R. Harlan. 1970. Biosystematics of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). Taxon 19:568.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cynodon aethiopicus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cynodon aethiopicus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cynodon aethiopicus.

Check other web resources for Cynodon aethiopicus Clayton & J. R. Harlan:

• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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