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Taxon: Bothriochloa insculpta (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) A. Camus

Genus:

Bothriochloa

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Anthristiriinae

Nomen number:

7478

Place of publication:

Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon sér. 2, 76:165. 1931

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

02-Oct-1997 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: Andropogon insculptus Hochst. ex A. Rich.
(≡) Andropogon pertusus var. insculptus (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Hack.
(-) Bothriochloa insculpta var. insculpta (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) A. Camus
(≡) Dichanthium insculptum (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Clayton

Common names:

creeping-bluegrass (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
pinhole grass (Source: pers. comm.) - English
sweet-pit grass (Source: Dict Rehm) - English

Economic Importance:

Animal food: forage;

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Morocco
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West]

Asia-Temperate

ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen

Europe

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy [Sicilia]

Cultivated

(also cult. in tropics)

References:

Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. English common names
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Bothriochloa+insculpta&quantity=1 target='_blank'
Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1980. Flora europaea. 5:266. Note: = Dichanthium insculptum

Check other web resources for Bothriochloa insculpta (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) A. Camus :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
On-line Flora of Zimbabwe:
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=7478. Accessed 1 July 2024.