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Taxon: Andropogon tectorum Schumach.

Genus: Andropogon
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 3340
Place of publication: Beskr. Guin. pl. 49. 1827
Comment: authorship verified from original literature, where the name and diagnosis together are ascribed to Schumacher (Vienna ICBN Art. 46, Ex. 14), although the description is ascribed to Thonning
Name verified on: 07-Mar-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Aug-2008
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • andropogon   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo

References:

  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr) [lists as A. tectorum Schumach. & Thonn.].
  • Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer) [lists as A. tectorum Schumach. & Thonn.].
More:

Check other databases for Andropogon tectorum Schumach.:

  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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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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?3340 (21 November 2009)

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