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Taxon: Saccharum spontaneum L.

Genus: Saccharum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 32625
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 2:183. 1771
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 02-Jul-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-Jul-2009
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 671 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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:
FL*, MA*, NC*, PR*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • African fodder cane   (Source: Pl Names ) – English   [Saccharum spontaneum subsp. aegyptiacum]
  • Asian fodder cane   (Source: Pl Names ) – English   [Saccharum spontaneum subsp. spontaneum]
  • fodder cane   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  • wild sugarcane   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
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Economic importance:

  • Harmful organism host: crop diseases; crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 697. 1997)
  • Environmental: revegetator; potential for erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:195. 1992)
  • Gene sources: disease resistance; secondary genetic relative of sugarcane   (fide Pl Res SEAs 9:145. 1996)
  • Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon [n.]
    West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Ghana; Nigeria
    South Tropical Africa: Malawi
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Israel; Lebanon
    Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
    China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
    Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sicily

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere, including Mesoamerica

References:

  • 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:195.
  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. (HF Dehra Dun)
  • Berding, N. & B. T. Roach. 1987. Chapter 4. Germplasm collection, maintenance, and use. IN: Heinz, D. (ed.). Sugarcane improvement through breeding. Developments in Crop Science (Developm Crop Sci) 143–210. [provided information that this taxon was used extensively for increasing genetic diversity in sugarcane, noting the difficulties of gene transfer during nobilization].
  • Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert. (F IndDes)
  • Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
  • Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt)
  • Daniels, J. et al. 1991. The taxonomic status of Saccharum barberi Jeswiet and S. sinense Roxb. Sugar Cane 1991:11–16.
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. (L Oman)
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
  • Grivet, L. et al. 2004. A review of recent molecular genetics evidence for sugarcane evolution and domestication. Ethnobot. Res. Applic. 2:9–17. [cites for this taxon 2n=40-128, with a basic number of x=8, commenting that modern cultivars were derived from crosses between this taxon & traditional sugarcane cultivars; crosses with S. officinarum occur].
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • How, F. C., ed. 1956. Flora of Kwangchow. (F Guangd)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. (F Saudi ed3)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • Mukherjee, S. K. 1954. Bull. Bot. Soc. Bengal 8:145.
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Price, S. 1957. Cytological studies in Saccharum and allied genera. III. Chromosome numbers in interspecific hybrids. Bot. Gaz. 118:146–159. [this study reported crosses between this taxon as paternal donor with S. officinarum & S. spontaneum resulting in hybrids either n+n or 2n+n respectively].
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • 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)
  • Takahashi, S. et al. 2005. Very close relationship of the chloroplast genomes among Saccharum species. Theor. Appl. Genet. 110:1523–1529. [based on complete chloroplast genome sequences a phylogeny of the genus was built using Zea as the outgroup; this taxon w. high levels of intraspecific variation supports interpretation as the basal species in the genus].
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
  • Whalen, M. D. 1991. Baileya 23:112.
  • Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
  • Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Saccharum spontaneum L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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.
    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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