Other conspecific taxa:

• Dichanthium annulatum (0 accessions)
• Dichanthium annulatum var. papillosum (0 accessions)

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

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

• Basionym: Andropogon annulatus Forssk.
• (≡) Dichanthium nodosum Willemet

Common names:

• bluestem  (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat) - English
• Diaz bluestem  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Hindi grass  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• Kleberg bluestem  (Source: Grass Tex) - English
• marvel grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• ringed dichanthium  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• sheda grass  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder (silage if taken before flowering) forage
• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Cape Verde, Portugal, [Madeira Islands] Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Mali, Niger, Senegal
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Egypt, [Sinai] Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Turkey (s.)

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia


Naturalized

Northern America

• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina

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. Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres
3. Burkill, H. M. 1985-2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
4. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
5. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
6. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). Note: = Dichanthium annulatum
7. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
8. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
9. Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139-247.
10. Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas
11. Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003-. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica Note: = Dichanthium annulatum
12. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: Eritrea added in 2000
13. Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres
14. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
15. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:118.
16. Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa. Note: as a diploid or tetraploid
18. Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113-123. Note: = Dichanthium annulatum
19. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Dichanthium annulatum

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=454905. Accessed 1 July 2024.