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Taxon: Panicum turgidum Forssk.

 
Genus: Panicum
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Panicinae
Nomen number: 26650
Place of publication: Fl. aegypt.-arab. 18. 1775
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 10-May-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Animal food: forage; forage; forage; forage

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Africa
    • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
    • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
    • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Niger

    Asia-Temperate
    • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia
    • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Iran (s.), Iraq (s.), Israel, Jordan

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Pakistan


    Naturalized

    Australasia
    • AUSTRALIA: Australia


References:

  1. Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976-. Flora of Libya.
  2. Anthelme, F. et al. 2007. Possitive associations involving the tussock grass Panicum turgidum Forssk. in the Air-Ténéré Reserve, Niger. J. Arid Environm. 68:348-362.
  3. Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
  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. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
  6. 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+turgidum&quantity=1 target='_blank'
  7. Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931-1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
  8. Migahid, A. M. 1988-1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
  9. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970-. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
  10. Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  12. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
  13. Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963-. Flora iranica.
  14. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  15. Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
  16. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966-. Flora of Iraq.
  17. Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966-. Flora palaestina.
  18. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).

Check other web resources for Panicum turgidum Forssk. :

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • 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=26650. Accessed 1 July 2024.