See other conspecific taxa:

• Panicum coloratum var. coloratum (0 accessions)
• Panicum coloratum var. makarikariense (0 accessions)

Common names:

• Coolah grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• Klein grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• small buffalo grass  (Source: Kellerman et al.) - English
• white buffalo grass  (Source: Grass SAfr) - English

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, Namibia, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West]


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized




Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland (s.e.), Western Australia]

Northern America

• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona]

References:

1. Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: Revised version of AH 170
2. Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
3. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
5. 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=Panicum+coloratum&quantity=1 target='_blank'
6. George, A. S., ed. 1980-. Flora of Australia.
7. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 1178.
8. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
9. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
10. Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
11. Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa
12. Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
13. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
14. Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun Note: only typical var.

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=26469. Accessed 1 July 2024.