Details for: PI 320982, Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

Origin:

Donated – Sierra Leone

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

22 Jun 1967

PI Assigned:

1967

Improvement Status:

Uncertain improvement status

Form Received:

Seed

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

175
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 320982 87i SD

Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

Origin:

Donated – Sierra Leone

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

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):

Department of Botany, Fourah Bay College

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

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/720265

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

Language	Name	Alternate name	seq	Citation
English	Bug's egg grass		1	Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
English	Japanese 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.
Chinese	ji yu ca	鲫鱼草	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Portuguese (Brazil)	capim-plumoso		2	Groth, 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.
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 17 Sep 1986, from Eragrostis spp. to Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory
GROWTH	Aggressive	Aggressiveness (coded)	3 - WEAK	GRASS.W6	PI 320982 87i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.002	GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 320982 87i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Root Type	Root type (coded)	2 - BUNCH	GRASS.W6	PI 320982 87i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Shatter	Amount of shattering (coded)	3 - SLIGHT	GRASS.W6	PI 320982 87i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Number	Stem number (coded)	1 - MANY	GRASS.W6	PI 320982 87i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Strength	Stem strength (coded)	2 - AVERAGE	GRASS.W6	PI 320982 87i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Texture	Stem texture (coded)	1 - SOFT	GRASS.W6	PI 320982 87i SD