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

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

• Basionym: Andropogon aristatus Poir.
• (I) Andropogon nodosus auct.

Common names:

• Angleton bluestem  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Angleton grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• awned dichanthium  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• bluestem  (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat) - English
• Medio bluestem  (Source: Grass VarUSA) - English
• hierba angleton  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• puntero  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• mao geng shuang hua cao  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

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

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China [Yunnan Sheng]
• EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)

References:

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2. Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
3. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
4. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
5. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
6. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
7. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Dichanthium+aristatum&quantity=1 target='_blank'
9. George, A. S., ed. 1980-. Flora of Australia.
10. Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2
11. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
12. Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas
13. Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
14. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
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16. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
17. Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the Yemen flora.
18. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

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=13898. Accessed 1 July 2024.