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Taxon: Arthraxon hispidus (Thunb.) Makino

Genus: Arthraxon
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 4302
Place of publication: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 26:214. 1912
Name verified on: 23-Jul-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-May-2003
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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:
CT*, MA*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • joint-head   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • small carpet grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • kobuna-gusa   (Source: Grass Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
    China: China
    Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India
    Indo-China: Indochina
    Malesia: Philippines
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - New South Wales [n.e.], Queensland [s.e.]

      Naturalized:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    North America
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Central America
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Chung, I.-C. 1965. Korean Grasses. (Grass Korea)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
  • Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
  • Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
  • Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • National Herbarium of New South Wales. 1961–1984. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSW)
  • Pullaiah, T. et al. 1997–1998. Flora of Andhra Pradesh (India). (F Andhra Prad)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
  • Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2). 1993–. Flora Madhya Pradesh. (F Madhya Prad)
  • Welzen, P. C. van. 1981. A taxonomic revision of the genus Arthraxon Beauv. (Gramineae). Blumea 27:266.
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Arthraxon hispidus (Thunb.) Makino:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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
  • 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:

More:
  • 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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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?4302 (09 February 2010)

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