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Details for: PI 76444,
Melinis repens
(Willd.) Zizka, 'Grass No. 8'
Summary
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Melinis repens
(Willd.) Zizka
Cultivar:
'Grass No. 8'
Origin:
Collected – Uganda
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Mar 1928
PI Assigned:
1928
Inventory Volume:
94
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Melinis repens
(Willd.) Zizka
Cultivar:
'Grass No. 8'
Origin:
Collected – Uganda
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Mar 1928
PI Assigned:
1928
Source History
Collected
12 November 1927.
Uganda
Locality:
Government Plantation, Kampala
Collector(s):
Kephart, L.W., USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry
Piemeisel, R.L., USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Grass No. 8'
Type: Cultivar name
No. 388
Type: Collector identifier
Narrative
Melinis repens
(Willd.) Zizka
Genus:
Melinis
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Melinidinae
Nomen number:
409666
Place of publication:
Biblioth. Bot. 138:55. 1988
Verified:
12/11/1997
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Saccharum repens
Willd.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rhynchelytrum repens
(Willd.) C. E. Hubb.
Tricholaena repens
(Willd.) Hitchc.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhynchelytrum roseum
(Nees) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
Tricholaena rosea
Nees
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
Natal grass
as
Rhynchelytrum roseum
1
Hitchcock, A. S.
1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
Note:
=
Rhynchelytrum roseum
English
Natal-redtop
1
Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
English
red Natal grass
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Spanish
yerba de Natal
as
Rhynchelytrum repens
2
Catasús Guerra, L. J.
2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
Note:
=
Rhychelytrum repens
(Willd.) C. E. Hubb.
Swedish
rosengräs
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Name
References
Annotations
The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received:
10 Jul 2007, from
Tricholaena rosea
Nees to
Melinis repens
(Willd.) Zizka
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