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Taxon:  Andropogon gayanus Kunth



Summary
Genus:
Andropogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
3213
Place of publication:
Enum. pl. 491. 1833
Verified:
08/02/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Andropogon gayanus Kunth var. bisquamulatus (Hochst.) Hack. (0 active accession[s])
Andropogon gayanus Kunth var. gayanus (0 active accession[s])
Andropogon gayanus Kunth var. polycladus (Hack.) Clayton (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Almeida-Neto, M. et al. 2010. Invasive grasses and native Asteraceae in the Brazilian cerrado. Pl. Ecol. 209:109-122.
  2. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
  3. Bowden, B. N. 1964. Studies on Andropogon gayanus Kunth: III. An outline of its biology. J. Ecol. 52:255-271.
  4. Burkill, H. M. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004
  5. Dogra, K. S. et al. 2010. Alien plant invasion and their impact on indigenous species diversity at global scale: A review. J. Ecol. Nat. Environm. 2:175-186. http://www.academicjournals.org/jene/index.htm
  6. Esqueda-Esquivel, V. A. et al. 2010. El control de arvenses en la productividad y calidad el pasto llanero. Agron. Mesoamer. 21:145-157. http://www.mag.go.cr/Agronomia_Mesoamericana/vol_anteriores.html
  7. 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=Andropogon+gayanus&quantity=1
  8. Foxcroft, L. C. et al. 2010. Alien plant invasions in tropical and sub-tropical savannas: patterns, processes and prospects. Biol. Invas. 12:3913-3933.
  9. Gómez, Y. & J. Paolini. 2011. Variación en la actividad microbiana por cambio de uso en suelos en sabanas, Llanos Orientales, Venezuela. Revista Biol. Trop. 59:1-15.
  10. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. 2003
  11. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  12. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000)
  13. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. 2008 Note: as "Andropogon gayanum Kunth"
  14. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
  15. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  16. National Herbarium of New South Wales. Flora of New South Wales. 1961-1984
  17. Randall, R. P. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. 2007 http://www.weeds.org.au/docs/intro_flora_australia.pdf
  18. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:44. http://proseanet.org
  19. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  20. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003
  21. Zon, A. P. M. van der. Graminées du Cameroun. 1992
Common names
English
gamba grass –
Tambuki grass –
Spanish (Mexico)
pasto llanero –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaEswatini  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaNamibia  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal 
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaLimpopo 
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaMpumalanga 
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBenin  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBurkina Faso  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGambia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaLiberia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMauritania  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaTogo  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCentral African Republic  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaGabon  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaZaire  
2CultivatedNorthern AmericaSouthern MexicoMexicoVeracruz 
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil s.e.
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuela  
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustralia  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sudan
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire
Cultivated
Northern America
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Veracruz]
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil (s.e.)
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
Naturalized
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
Economic Uses
Animal food
Materials
cane (for thatching & matting fide Use Pl WT Afr) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Weed
(fide Invasive Pl Spec) –


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