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Taxon: Eleusine kigeziensis S. M. Phillips

 
Genus: Eleusine
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Eleusininae
Nomen number: 464062
Place of publication: Kew Bull. 27:266. 1972
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 29-Nov-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Africa
    • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia (s.w.)
    • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Uganda
    • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (n.e.), Rwanda


References:

  1. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
  2. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: Eritrea added in 2000
  3. Hiremath, S. C. & S. S. Salimath. 1991. Quantitative nuclear DNA changes in Eleusine (Gramineae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 178:225-233.
  4. Liu, Q. et al. 2011. Allotetraploid origin and divergence in Eleusine (Chloridoideae, Poaceae): evidence from low-copy nuclear gene phylogenies and a plastid gene chronogram. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 108:1287-1298.
  5. Neves, S. S. et al. 2005. Phylogeny of Eleusine (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) based on nuclear ITS and plastid trnT – trnF sequences. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 35:395-419.
  6. Neves, S. S. 2011. Chapter 7. Eleusine. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, millets and grasses 113-133. Note: as a perennial, 2n=38
  7. Peterson, P. M. et al. 2015. A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Eleusininae with a new genus, Micrachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 64:445-467.
  8. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.

Check other web resources for Eleusine kigeziensis S. M. Phillips :

  • 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=464062. Accessed 3 July 2024.