Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Chloris elegans Kunth

Common names:

• feather finger grass  (Source: Names Beetle) - English
• feather windmill grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• feathered chloris  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• feathertop grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• feathertop Rhodes grass  (Source: Econ Pl Aust) - English
• feathery Rhodes grass  (Source: F BritStace) - English
• hairy Rhodes grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• oldland grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• sweet grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• woolly-top Rhodes grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• klossiegras  (Source: Grass SAfr) - Afrikaans
• Feder-Fingergras  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• verdillo plumerito  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• zacate pluma  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental:
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen [Socotra]
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Mali, Niger, Nigeria
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West]
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan
• CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye]
• CHINA: China [Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands] Korea, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [New Jersey]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique
• CENTRAL AMERICA: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay


Cultivated

Africa

• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.)


Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canarias]

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=10289. Accessed 3 July 2024.