Taxon: Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B. K. Simon & S. W. L. Jacobs

See also subordinate taxa:

• Megathyrsus maximus var. coloratus (no accessions)
• Megathyrsus maximus var. pubiglumis (no accessions)

Common names:

• capim-colonião   (Source: Dict Rehm as P. maximum)
  
• green panic grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:172. as P. maximum)
  
• Guinea grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Guineagras   (Source: Dict Rehm as P. maximum)
  
• herbe de Guinée   (Source: Dict Rehm as P. maximum)
  
• mijo de Guinea   (Source: Dict Rehm as P. maximum)
  
• pasto Guinea   (Source: Dict Rehm as P. maximum)
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Blumea 41:197. 1996, as P. maximum; Grass US, as P. maximum, the most important cultivated forage grass in tropical America; Invasive Pl Spec, as P. maximum)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al., as P. maximum)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA, as P. maximum; Invasive Pl Spec, as P. maximum)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Megathyrsus maximus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen

Other:

• naturalized in tropical Asia, Australia, s. United States & Hawaii, tropical America, Macaronesia, Galapagos, Melanesia, & Polynesia

References:

• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= P. maximum].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Megathyrsus maximus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Megathyrsus maximus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Panicum hirsutissimum Steud.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Panicum maximum Jacq. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 404 accessions)
• Panicum maximum var. coloratum C. T. White [≡ Megathyrsus maximus var. coloratus]
  
• (=) Panicum maximum var. hirsutissimum (Steud.) Oliv.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Panicum maximum var. pubiglume K. Schum. [≡ Megathyrsus maximus var. pubiglumis]
  
• (=) Panicum maximum var. trichoglume Robyns
  (previously associated with 13 accessions)

Check other databases for Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B. K. Simon & S. W. L. Jacobs:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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