Other conspecific taxa:

• Oplismenus hirtellus subsp. capensis (0 accessions)
• Oplismenus hirtellus subsp. hirtellus (0 accessions)
• Oplismenus hirtellus subsp. setarius (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Oplismenus africanus P. Beauv.
• (=) Oplismenus africanus var. africanus P. Beauv.
• Basionym: Panicum hirtellum L.
• (=) Panicum setarium Lam.

Common names:

• basket grass  (Source: F Hawaii) - English
• bristle basket grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• woods grass  (Source: Atlas Florida) - English
• ampelhirs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea [Bioko]
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Limpopo (e.), Mpumalanga, North-West]

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Thailand

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland]

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Switzerland
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/main.asp?plantID=3707), Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland (n.-c.), Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• Mexico

Pacific

• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, [Antigua] Bahamas, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, [Saint Kitts] St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, United States [Puerto Rico]
• 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, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

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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=25809. Accessed 1 July 2024.