Other conspecific taxa:

• Eragrostis cilianensis subsp. cilianensis (0 accessions)
• Eragrostis cilianensis subsp. starosselskyi (4 accessions)

Synonyms:

• (=) Eragrostis major Host
• (=) Eragrostis megastachya (Koeler) Link
• (=) Poa megastachya Koeler

Common names:

• gray love grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• stink grass  (Source: Intermt F) - English
• großes Liebesgras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• graminha  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals ()
• Weed: potential seed contaminant ()

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Zaire
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Egypt, [Sinai] Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku]

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Moldova, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain


Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)

References:

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2. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
3. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999- (F Egypt)
4. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
5. Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
6. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
7. Cronquist, A. et al. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
8. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
9. Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
10. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
11. FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
12. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
13. Ghazanfar, S. A. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. 1992 (L Oman)
14. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990 (Grass SAfr)
15. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
16. Gugsa, L. & T. Mengiste 1999. The crossability of Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) trotter with its wild close relatives Proc. Annual Conf. Crop Science Soc. Ethiopia. 57-60.
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18. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
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Images:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image