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Taxon: Dichanthium caricosum (L.) A. Camus

 
Genus: Dichanthium
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Anthristiriinae
Nomen number: 13899
Place of publication: Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 27:549. 1921, nom. cons.
Link to protologue:
Comment: the basionym Andropogon caricosus L. is conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Shenzhen ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV)
Name Verified on: 29-Aug-2018 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

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

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

Economic Importance:

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

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Asia-Temperate
    • CHINA: China [Guizhou Sheng, Yunnan Sheng]

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
    • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
    • INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand
    • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia


    Naturalized



    Australasia
    • AUSTRALIA: Australia (n.)


References:

  1. Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun.
  2. Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
  3. Burkill, H. M. 1985-2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
  4. Chorghe, A. R. et al. 2016. (2455) Proposal to conserve the name Andropogon caricosus (Dichanthium caricosum) (Poaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 65:885-886.
  5. 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
  6. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
  7. 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+caricosum&quantity=1 target='_blank'
  8. George, A. S., ed. 1980-. Flora of Australia.
  9. Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:181. Note: based on a 1980 citation
  10. Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986-. Flora of the Guianas.
  11. Holttum, R. E. et al. 1953-1971. A revised flora of Malaya.
  12. Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998-. Flora de la República de Cuba
  13. Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
  14. Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
  15. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
  16. Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  18. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Check other web resources for Dichanthium caricosum (L.) A. Camus :

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
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=13899. Accessed 1 July 2024.