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

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

• (=) Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.
• (=) Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link
• (=) Poa amabilis L.
• (=) Poa plumosa Retz.
• Basionym: Poa tenella L.

Common names:

• Bug's egg grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• Japanese love grass  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• capim-plumoso  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• ji yu ca  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf (for lawns fide J. Veldkamp, pers. comm.; Dict Gard)
• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt (s.e.)
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Iran [Hormozgān]
• CHINA: China [Fujian Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Hubei Sheng]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Ryukyu Islands] Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, India, [Andaman and Nicobar Islands] Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Pacific

• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: British Indian Ocean Terr [Diego Garcia]

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama (s.), Florida, Georgia, Mississippi (s.), South Carolina]
• Mexico

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii, United States Minor Outlying Islands]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Marshall Islands, United States [Northern Mariana Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Kiribati [Line Islands]
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: West Indies
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Paraguay


Other (exact native range obscure)

References:

1. Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
2. Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. Note: = Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
4. 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
5. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. Note: = Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
6. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca. Note: = Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
7. Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2
8. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
9. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
10. Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
11. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
12. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
13. Koch, S. D. 1978. Notes on the genus Eragrostis (Gramineae) in the southeastern United States. Rhodora 80:399.
14. Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions
15. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
16. Lazarides, M. 1997. A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 10:157-158.
17. Nicolson, D. H. et al. 1988. An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Veg. 119:309. Note: = Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
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19. Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963-. Flora iranica.
20. Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India
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23. Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:243.
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25. Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
26. Veldkamp, J. F. 2003. Miscellaneous notes on Thai Gramineae. Blumea 48:495-501. Note: mentions as being confused with Eragrostis amabilis
27. Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the Yemen flora.
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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=15321. Accessed 6 July 2024.