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Taxon: Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

Genus:

Diplachne

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Eleusininae

Nomen number:

14348

Place of publication:

Syst. veg. 2:615. 1817

Link to protologue:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/720304

Comment:

P. Beauv. did not actually make this combination in Ess. Agrostogr. (1812), although the index has a cross reference to Diplachne for Festuca fusca on p. 163

Name Verified on:

16-Oct-2001 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

See other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

brown beetle grass (Source: BSBI) - English

Economic Importance:

Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China
EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

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

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Northern Territory]

Northern America

NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana (n. & s.w.), Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (s.), New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia (w.)]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho (s.w.), Montana (n.-c.), Oregon, Washington, Wyoming (s.e.)]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina (c.), South Carolina (e.), Tennessee, Virginia]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas, Baja California (Norte), Baja California Sur]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca]

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, [Antigua] Bahamas, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, United States [Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S.]
CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
BRAZIL: Brazil
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

References:

Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. Note: lists as Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv.
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Note: lists as Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv.
Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca. Note: = Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth
Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993-. Flora of Victoria.
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: = Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth
Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions Note: lists as Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv.
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970-. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
Nowack, R. 1994. Revision of Leptochloa Beauv. (incl. Diplachne Beauv.) (Poaceae) in Malesia. Rheedea 4:84. Note: = Leptochloa malabarica (L.) Veldkamp
Petersen, P. M. et al. 2012. A molecular phylogeny and classification of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) sensu lato and related genera. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 109:1317-1330.
Snow, N. & G. Davidse. 1998. (1330) Proposal to reject the name Poa malabarica (Gramineae). Taxon 47:157-159. Note: = Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa. Note: lists as Diplachne fusca (L.) Stapf
Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47 Note: = Diplachne malabarica (L.) Merr.

Check other web resources for Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
On-line Flora of Zimbabwe:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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=14348. Accessed 5 July 2024.