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Taxon: Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone

Genus:

Cenchrus

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Paniceae

Subtribe:

Cenchrinae

Nomen number:

464256

Place of publication:

Ann. Bot. (Oxford) ser. 2, 106:127. 2010

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

17-Jan-2012 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)

(=) Alopecurus typhoides Burm. f.
(≡) Chaetochloa glauca (L.) Scribn.
(≡) Chamaeraphis glauca (L.) Kuntze
(=) Holcus spicatus L.
Basionym: Panicum glaucum L.
(=) Panicum spicatum (L.) Roxb.
(=) Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke
(=) Pennisetum americanum subsp. americanum (L.) Leeke
(=) Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.
(=) Pennisetum glaucum subsp. glaucum (L.) R. Br.
(=) Pennisetum leonis Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
(=) Pennisetum spicatum (L.) Körn.
(=) Pennisetum typhoides (Burm. f.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
(=) Pennisetum typhoideum Rich.
(≡) Setaria glauca (L.) P. Beauv.
(=) Setaria glauca subsp. glauca (L.) P. Beauv.

Common names:

bajra (Source: Websters Dict) - English
bulrush millet (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
cattail millet (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
horse millet (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
Indian millet (Source: Proc Natl Acad Sci) - English
pearl millet (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
mil africain (Source: L Noms French ed7) - French
millet à chandelles (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
millet perle (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Negerhirse (Source: Zander Ency) - German
Perlhirse (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
bajira (Source: Dict Rehm) - India (Hindi)
miglio perlato (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
milheto (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
mijo negro (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
mijo perla (Source: Cavanillesia Alt) - Spanish
pärlhirs (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
yu gu (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Animal food: fodder (for birdseed) forage
Environmental: ornamental; soil improver
Human food:
Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

Africa

Africa

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India

Northern America

United States

Adventive

Northern America

NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Washington]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]

References:

Chemisquy, M. A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106:107-130.
Gutiérrez, H. F. 2015. Las especies americanas del género Cenchrus s.l. (Poaceae, Panioideae, Paniceae). Darwiniana 3:114-200.
Simon, B. K. 2010. New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Austrobaileya 8:187-219.
Verloove, F. 2012. New combinations in Cenchrus (Paniceae, Poaceae) in Europe and the Mediterranean area. Willdenowia 42:77-78. Note: = Cenchrus spicatus (L.) Cav.

Check other web resources for Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone :

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
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
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=464256. Accessed 1 July 2024.