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Taxon:  Cynodon aethiopicus Clayton & J. R. Harlan



Summary
Genus:
Cynodon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Cynodonteae
Nomen number:
318662
Place of publication:
Kew Bull. 24:187. 1970
Verified:
09/09/1993 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. de Wet, J. M. J. & J. R. Harlan. 1970. Biosystematics of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). Taxon 19:568. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  2. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cynodon+aethiopicus&quantity=1
  4. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  5. Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. A guide to the species of Cynodon (Gramineae). Bull. Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Sta. B-673:6.
  6. Harlan, J. R. et al. 1970. Geographic distribution of the species of Cynodon L. C. Rich. (Gramineae). E. African Agric. Forest. J. 36:222.
  7. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  8. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  9. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
  10. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  13. Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Common names
English
African stargrass –
Ethiopian dogtooth grass –
Nakuru grass –
star grass –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan s.e.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique n.w.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaZaire e.
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan (s.e.)
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique (n.w.), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Rwanda, Zaire (e.)
Naturalized
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland]
Northern America
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
potential for erosion control (fide Grass SAfr) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kellerman et al.) –


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