Taxon: Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka

Common names:

• Natal grass   (Source: Grass US [as Rhynchelytrum roseum]) – English
  
• Natal-redtop   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – English
  
• red Natal grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• yerba de Natal   (Source: Grass Cuba II [as Rhynchelytrum repens]) – Spanish
  
• rosengräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass SAfr)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Spain - Canary Islands [Tenerife]
  Northern Africa: Morocco
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Niger; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia; Kiribati - Line Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Nauru; New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163. [= Rhychelytrum repens (Willd.) C. E. Hubb.].
• 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.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. [= Rhynchelytrum roseum].
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [= Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C. E. Hubb.].
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Zizka, G. 1988. Revision der Melinideae Hitchcock (Poaceae, Panicoideae). Biblioth. Bot. 138:1–149.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:287.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Melinis repens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Melinis repens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Melinis repens.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C. E. Hubb.
  (previously associated with 25 accessions)
• (=) Rhynchelytrum roseum (Nees) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Saccharum repens Willd. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Tricholaena repens (Willd.) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (=) Tricholaena rosea Nees
  (previously associated with 40 accessions)

Check other web resources for Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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
• 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:

• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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