Bothriochloa bladhii
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Genus: | Bothriochloa |
Species: | B. bladhii
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Binomial name | |
Bothriochloa bladhii | |
Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Bothriochloa bladhii (commonly called, variously, Australian bluestem, Caucasian bluestem, forest-bluegrass, plains bluestem, and purple plume grass)[2] is a Neotropic grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in tropical Africa, and tropical and temperate Asia, and Australia. The type specimen was collected from China by Finnish botanist .[3][4] The name of Bladh is honored in the specific epithet.
Distribution[]
Bothriochloa bladhii is native to northeast, west, west-central, and south tropical, and southern Africa (in Angola; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; Senegal; the provinces of Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, and Northern Cape of South Africa; Swaziland; Tanzania (including the Zanzibar Archipelago); Uganda; Zambia; and Zimbabwe); much of temperate and tropical, southern and eastern Asia, eastern Eurasia, Malesia, and the Middle East (in Afghanistan; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bhutan; Burma; Cambodia; the provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, and Yunnan of China; India; Iran; Japan (including the Ryukyu Islands); southern Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Malaysia; Nepal; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Ciscaucasian Russia; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; and Vietnam); and the states of New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia of Australia.[2]
Bothriochloa bladhii has also become naturalized elsewhere in the neotropics.[2]
Uses[]
Bothriochloa bladhii is used as stored food for local livestock, and as a grazing plant by both livestock and wild ruminants.[2] It is sometimes planted as a revegetator, to restore disturbed land.[2]
References[]
- ^ Under it treatment as Bothriochloa bladhii (from its basionym Andropogon bladhii), this plant name was first published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 80(6): 62–64. 1969. "Name - Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.) S.T.Blake". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
Basionym: Andropogon bladhii Retz.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Bothriochloa bladhii". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved November 9, 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Andropogon bladhii (the basionym of B. bladhii) was originally described and published in Observationes Botanicae 2: 27. 1781. "Name - Andropogon bladhii Retz". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
Type-Protologue: Collector: Bladh; Distribution: China
- ^ "Entry for Peter Johan Bladh". Index of Botanists. Harvard University Herbarium. May 21, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
External links[]
- GrassBase page for Bothriochloa bladhii
- Picture of Bothriochloa bladhii from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) website, courtesy of the Bishop Museum, Herbarium Pacificum
- Bothriochloa
- Grasses of Africa
- Grasses of Asia
- Grasses of China
- Grasses of India
- Grasses of New Zealand
- Grasses of Pakistan
- Grasses of Russia
- Flora of Indo-China
- Flora of East Tropical Africa
- Flora of Southern Africa
- Flora of South Tropical Africa
- Flora of temperate Asia
- Flora of Afghanistan
- Flora of Armenia
- Flora of Azerbaijan
- Flora of Bhutan
- Flora of Burkina Faso
- Flora of Cameroon
- Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Flora of Ethiopia
- Flora of Ghana
- Flora of Iran
- Flora of Japan
- Flora of the Ryukyu Islands
- Flora of Kazakhstan
- Flora of Kyrgyzstan
- Flora of Malesia
- Flora of Nepal
- Flora of Nigeria
- Flora of Papua New Guinea
- Flora of Senegal
- Flora of Sri Lanka
- Flora of Taiwan
- Flora of Anhui
- Flora of Fujian
- Flora of Guangdong
- Flora of Guangxi
- Flora of Guizhou
- Flora of Hubei
- Flora of Hunan
- Flora of Shaanxi
- Flora of Sichuan
- Flora of Xinjiang
- Flora of Yunnan
- Poales of Australia
- Plants described in 1781
- Panicoideae stubs