Other conspecific taxa:

• Bothriochloa bladhii subsp. bladhii (0 accessions)
• Bothriochloa bladhii subsp. glabra (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Amphilophis intermedia (R. Br.) Stapf
• (=) Amphilophis intermedia var. acidula (Stapf) Stapf
• (=) Amphilophis intermedia var. intermedia (R. Br.) Stapf
• Basionym: Andropogon bladhii Retz.
• (=) Andropogon caucasicus Trin.
• (=) Andropogon intermedius R. Br.
• (=) Andropogon intermedius var. caucasicus (Trin.) Hack.
• (=) Andropogon intermedius var. intermedius R. Br.
• (=) Andropogon pertusus var. vegetior Hack.
• (=) Bothriochloa caucasica (Trin.) C. E. Hubb.
• (=) Bothriochloa insculpta var. vegetior (Hack.) C. E. Hubb.
• (=) Bothriochloa intermedia (R. Br.) A. Camus
• (=) Bothriochloa intermedia var. intermedia (R. Br.) A. Camus
• (=) Bothriochloa intermedia var. punctata (Roxb.) Keng

Common names:

• Australian bluestem  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• Burnett River-bluegrass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• Caucasian bluestem  (Source: Crop Sci) - English
• forest-bluegrass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• plains bluestem  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• purple plume grass  (Source: Grass SAfr) - English
• blouklosgras  (Source: Grass SAfr) - Afrikaans

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental: revegetator (as Bothriochloa caucasica)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania (incl. Pemba, Zanzibar), Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West]

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan (s.), Kyrgyzstan
• CHINA: China [Anhui Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Shaanxi Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Ryukyu Islands] Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia (tropical), Northern Territory]


Naturalized

Australasia

• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, United States [Virgin Islands, U.S.]
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina [La Pampa]

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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=103434. Accessed 1 July 2024.