Taxon: Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A. Camus

Genus:

Bothriochloa

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Anthristiriinae

Nomen number:

7489

Place of publication:

Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon sér. 2, 76:164. 1931

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

02-Oct-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 09-Mar-2017

Species priority site is:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9)

Accessions:

29 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(=) Andropogon pertusus (L.) Willd.
(≡) Dichanthium pertusum (L.) Clayton
(=) Holcus pertusus L.

Common names:

hurricane grass (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Indian couch grass (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
Indian-bluegrass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
pitted bluestem (Source: F NAmer) - English
comagueyana (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Environmental: erosion control ()
Environmental: potential as lawn/turf ()
Environmental: revegetator ()
Animal food: forage ()
Weed: (fide Trop. Agric., Trin. 45:235-241. 1968)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China [Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan]

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
INDO-CHINA: Thailand, Vietnam
MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere in tropics)

References:

Aldous, D. 2000. Advances in turfgrass science and management in Australasia (Diversity) 16:51-52.
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
Holttum, R. E. et al. A revised flora of Malaya. (F Malaya)
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). (Aust Pl Common Names)
Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980 (Grass SEAs)
Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
Oakes, A. J. 1968. Replacing hurricane grass in pastures of the dry tropics Trop. Agric. (Trinidad) 45:235-241.
Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996 (Grass NE India)
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages (Pl Res SEAs) 4:54.
Thulin, M., ed. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A. Camus :

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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.

Images:

Disseminule drawings\; A: Spikelet; B: floret; C-D: caryopsis in two views: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=7489. Accessed 26 April 2018.