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Taxon: Mnesithea granularis (L.) de Koning & Sosef

Genus:

Mnesithea

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Rottboelliinae

Nomen number:

433176

Place of publication:

Blumea 31:295. 1986

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

23-May-2005 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)

Basionym: Cenchrus granularis L.
(≡) Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze
(≡) Manisuris granularis (L.) Naezén
(≡) Rytilix granularis (L.) Skeels

Common names:

pit-scale grass (Source: F NAmer) - English

Economic Importance:

Weed: potential seed contaminant (as Hackelochloa granularis)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Transvaal]

Asia-Temperate

ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Yemen
CHINA: China [Fujian Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu]
EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Ryukyu Islands] Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, [Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh] Pakistan, Sri Lanka
PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand
MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland (n.), Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory (n.)]

Naturalized

Northern America

United States

References:

Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. Note: = Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze
FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. Note: = Hackelochloa granularis
George, A. S., ed. 1980-. Flora of Australia.
Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986-. Flora of the Guianas. Note: = Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze
Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
Simon, B. K. 1989. Studies in Australian grasses: 4. Taxonomic and nomenclatural studies in Australian Andropogoneae. Austrobaileya 3:79-100
Veldkamp, J. F. et al. 1986. Generic delimitation of Rottboellia and related genera (Gramineae). Blumea 31:281-307.
Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:295.

Check other web resources for Mnesithea granularis (L.) de Koning & Sosef :

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:
AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
On-line Flora of Zimbabwe:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
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
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=433176. Accessed 1 July 2024.