Taxon: Setaria megaphylla (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz

Common names:

• big-leaf bristle grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• ribbon bristle grass   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass SAfr)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland

• naturalized elsewhere, including s.e. United States (Florida)

• also cultivated

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. [mentions; introduced in India].
• 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.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Setaria megaphylla.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Setaria megaphylla.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Setaria megaphylla.

Synonyms:

• (=) Setaria chevalieri Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Setaria plicatilis (Hochst.) Hack. ex Engl.
  

Check other web resources for Setaria megaphylla (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz:

• 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• 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.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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