See other conspecific taxa:

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

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

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

• (=) Panicum swynnertonii Rendle

Common names:

• colored Guinea grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Klein grass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• white buffalo grass  (Source: Grass SAfr) - English
• hijé  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• buntes Guineagras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• capim-macaricam  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• pasto colorado  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental:
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (including 'Bushman Mine')

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 [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal]


Cultivated

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina


Naturalized

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

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. Cufodontis, G. 1953-1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
4. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
5. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
6. Ferri, C. M. 2011. The seasonal and inter-annual patterns of biomass accumulation and crude protein in kleingrass (Panicum coloratum) in the semiarid Pampean region of Argentina. Ci. & Invest. Agrar. 38:191-198.
7. 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+var.+coloratum&quantity=1 target='_blank'
8. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
9. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
10. Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa Note: poisonous
11. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
13. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. Note: = Panicum coloratum
14. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
15. Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
16. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
17. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Panicum coloratum
18. Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun
19. Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.

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=408645. Accessed 1 July 2024.