Details for: PI 196356, Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees, 'Grootfontein strain'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees

Cultivar:

'Grootfontein strain'

Origin:

Collected – Cape Province, South Africa

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

16 May 1951

PI Assigned:

1951

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Inventory Volume:

159
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees

Cultivar:

'Grootfontein strain'

Origin:

Collected – Cape Province, South Africa

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

16 May 1951

PI Assigned:

1951

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Collected

Cape Province, South Africa

Collector(s):

Liebenberg, L.C.C., Department of Agriculture

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Grootfontein strain'

Type: Cultivar name

Narrative

Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees

Genus:

Eragrostis

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Eragrostideae

Subtribe:

Eragrostidinae

Nomen number:

27889

Place of publication:

Fl. Afr. austral. ill. 397. 1841

Protologue link:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7363045

Verified:

05/07/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Poa curvula Schrad.

Autonym(s)
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees var. curvula

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eragrostis chloromelas Steud.
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees var. ampla ined.
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees var. conferta Nees
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees var. valida Stapf
Eragrostis jeffreysii Hack.
Eragrostis robusta Stent
Eragrostis subulata Nees

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	African love grass			1	Veldkamp, J. F. 2002. Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47:173.
English	Boer love grass		as Eragrostis curvula var. conferta	1	Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: = Eragrostis curvula var. conferta
English	weeping love grass			1	Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Afrikaans	oulandsgras			2	Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
Chinese	wan ye hua mei cao	弯叶画眉草		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Italian	eragrostide curvula			2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Spanish	pasto llorón			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	afrikanskt kärleksgräs			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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