Details for: PI 320980, Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Origin:
Donated – Sierra Leone
Received by NPGS:
22 Jun 1967
PI Assigned:
1967
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Form Received:
Seed
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Origin:
Donated – Sierra Leone
Received by NPGS:
22 Jun 1967
PI Assigned:
1967
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Donated
22 June 1967.
Sierra Leone

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Narrative
Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Genus:
Eragrostis
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Eragrostideae
Subtribe:
Eragrostidinae
Nomen number:

15321
Place of publication:

Syst. veg. 2:576. 1817
Comment:
  • authorship verified from original literature
  • first author to unite Poa tenella L. & P. amabilis L. was Stapf (1897, who chose P. tenella), not Munro (1862), despite the assertion in Regnum Veg. 119:309. 1988
Verified:
02/08/2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Poa tenella L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.
Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link
Poa amabilis L.
Poa plumosa Retz.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishBug's egg grass  1Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
EnglishJapanese love grass  1't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:127.
Chineseji yu ca鲫鱼草 2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Portuguese (Brazil)capim-plumoso  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 03 Dec 1997, from Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. to Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 08 Feb 2008, from Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. to Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
GROWTHAggressiveAggressiveness (coded)3 - WEAK GRASS.W6PI 320980 76i SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.002 GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 320980 76i SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYLeaf numberRelative number of leaves3 - FEW GRASS.W6PI 320980 76i SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRoot TypeRoot type (coded)2 - BUNCH GRASS.W6PI 320980 76i SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYStem NumberStem number (coded)2 - AVERAGE GRASS.W6PI 320980 76i SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYStem StrengthStem strength (coded)2 - AVERAGE GRASS.W6PI 320980 76i SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYStem TextureStem texture (coded)1 - SOFT GRASS.W6PI 320980 76i SDNot Available