Panicum coloratum

Panicum coloratum
Panicum coloratum

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Poales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Panicoideae
Tribus: Paniceae
Subtribus: Panicinae
Genus: Panicum
Species: Panicum coloratum

Name edit

Panicum coloratum L., 1767

Homonyms edit

Synonyms edit

  • Homotypic
    • Milium coloratum (L.) Moench, Methodus: 203 (1794)
  • Heterotypic
    • Panicum bossii Tropea, Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 10: 100 (1912)
    • Panicum coloratum var. makarikariense Gooss., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1934: 195 (1934)
    • Panicum coloratum var. minus Stapf ex Chiov., Res. Sci. Somalia Ital. 1: 183, 226 (1916)
    • Panicum coloratum var. strictum Rendle, W.P.Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. 2: 178 (1899)
    • Panicum crassipes Mez, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 187 (1921)
    • Panicum jainii Karthik. & Sundararagh., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 24: 145 (1982 publ. 1983)
    • Panicum nehruense Jauhar & Joshi, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 7: 97 (1966)
    • Panicum simpliciflorum Jauhar & Joshi, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 62: 320 (1965)
    • Panicum subalbidum var. tuberculosum Chiov., Ann. Bot. (Rome) 8: 307 (1908)
    • Panicum swynnertonii Rendle, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 230 (1911)

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Africa
    • Regional: Southern Africa
      • Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Swaziland
    • Regional: Central Africa
      • Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Chad, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    • Regional: Eastern Africa
      • Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
    • Regional: Northern Africa
      • Egypt
    • Introduced into:
      • Cameroon, China South-Central, China Southeast, Fiji, Hawaii, Honduras, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Is., Texas, Yemen

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References edit

Primary references edit

Additional references edit

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Links edit

Vernacular names edit

العربية: ثمام ملون
English: kleingrass, Klinegrass, Coolah Grass
中文: 光头黍
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