Taxon: Sacciolepis indica (L.) Chase

Common names:

• Chase's Glenwood grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Indian cupscale grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province [e.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• naturalized in neotropics & subtropics

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Bryson, C. T. & T. C. Lockley. 1993. Sacciolepis indica (Poaceae) new to Mississippi. Sida 15:555–556.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953–1971. A revised flora of Malaya.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Judziewicz, E. J. 1990. A new South American species of Sacciolepis (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae), with a summary of the genus in the New World. Syst. Bot. 15:418.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sacciolepis indica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sacciolepis indica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sacciolepis indica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Aira indica L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Panicum contractum Wight & Arn. ex Nees
  
• (≡) Panicum indicum (L.) L.
  
• (=) Sacciolepis contracta (Wight & Arn. ex Nees) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Sacciolepis indica (L.) Chase:

• 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• 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:

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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