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Taxon: Thysanolaena latifolia (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Honda

Genus:

Thysanolaena

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Thysanolaeneae

Nomen number:

405762

Place of publication:

J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3:312. 1930

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

30-Apr-1998 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)

(=) Agrostis maxima Roxb.
Basionym: Melica latifolia Roxb. ex Hornem.
(=) Thysanolaena agrostis Nees
(=) Thysanolaena maxima (Roxb.) Kuntze

Common names:

Asian broom grass (Source: F NAmer) - English
tiger grass (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
amliso (Source: Dict Rehm) - India

Economic Importance:

Animal food: forage
Environmental:
Materials: fiber (for making brooms) fiber (for making brooms)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China (s.)
EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan (n.), Sri Lanka
INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand
MALESIA: Malaysia (Malaya)

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Naturalized

Pacific

NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
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=Thysanolaena+latifolia&quantity=1 target='_blank'
Frohlich, D. & A. Lau. 2014. New plant records for the Hawaiian Islands 2012–2013. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 115:12.
Mabberley, D. J. 1984. Pallas's buckthorn and two and a half centuries of neglected binomials. Taxon 33:437.
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Thysanolaena maxima
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:224.

Check other web resources for Thysanolaena latifolia (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Honda :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
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=405762. Accessed 3 July 2024.