See other conspecific taxa:

• Cenchrus polystachios subsp. atrichus (0 accessions)
• Cenchrus polystachios subsp. polystachios (0 accessions)
• Cenchrus polystachios subsp. setosus (0 accessions)

Common names:

• feather pennisetum  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• mission grass  (Source: World Worst Weeds) - English
• thin Napier grass  (Source: Mansf Ency) - English
• capim-avião  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-custódio  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-mandante  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-oferecido  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Cape Verde
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar


Cultivated

Asia-Temperate

• EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
• INDO-CHINA: Thailand

Pacific

• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji


Naturalized




Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Solomon Islands
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Indochina, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

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

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida (s.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas (s.e.)]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona (s.), Nevada (s.)]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Chiapas, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, United States [Guam, Northern Mariana Islands]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, Vanuatu

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, United States [Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico]
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru


Other (exact native range obscure)

References:

1. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
2. Dujardin, M. & W. W. Hanna. 1989. Crossability of Pearl Millet with wild Pennisetum species. Crop Sci. (Madison) 29:77-80.
3. Simon, B. K. 2010. New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Austrobaileya 8:187-219.
4. Veldkamp, J. F. 2014. A revision of Cenchrus incl. Pennisetum (Gramineae) in Malesia with some general nomenclatural notes. Blumea 59:59-75.

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=476779. Accessed 3 July 2024.