See other conspecific taxa:

• Eragrostis cilianensis subsp. cilianensis (0 accessions)
• Eragrostis cilianensis subsp. starosselskyi (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Eragrostis major Host
• (=) Eragrostis megastachya (Koeler) Link
• (=) Poa megastachya Koeler

Common names:

• gray love grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• stink grass  (Source: Intermt F) - English
• stink grass  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• éragrostide fétide  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• großes Liebesgras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• graminha  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals
• Weed: potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Egypt, [Sinai] Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku]

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Moldova, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain


Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)

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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=27885. Accessed 6 July 2024.