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Taxon: Sehima nervosa (Rottler) Stapf

 
Genus: Sehima
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Ischaeminae
Nomen number: 33564
Place of publication: D. Prain, Fl. trop. Afr. 9:36. 1917 "nervosum"
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 06-Oct-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

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

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

Common names:

  • rat-tail grass  (Source: F NSWales) - English

Economic Importance:

  • Animal food: fodder; forage; forage

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Africa
    • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
    • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
    • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Mozambique

    Asia-Temperate
    • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
    • CHINA: China [Guangdong Sheng, Yunnan Sheng]

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, [Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka] Sri Lanka
    • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
    • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
    • MALESIA: Indonesia

    Australasia
    • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales (n.), Queensland, Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory (n.)]


References:

  1. Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
  3. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1972. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. 9:269-270.
  4. Froman, B. & S. Persson. 1974. An illustrated guide to the grasses of Ethiopia
  5. Harden, G. J., ed. 1990-1993. Flora of New South Wales.
  6. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: Eritrea added in 2000
  7. Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
  8. Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
  9. Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
  10. Pullaiah, T. et al. 1997-1998. Flora of Andhra Pradesh (India).
  11. Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India
  12. Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. 1991. Flora of Kerala - grasses.
  13. Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983-1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
  14. Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
  15. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  16. Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the Yemen flora.

Check other web resources for Sehima nervosa (Rottler) Stapf :

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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=33564. Accessed 1 July 2024.