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Taxon:  Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone



Summary
Genus:
Cenchrus
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:
464256
Place of publication:
Ann. Bot. (Oxford) ser. 2, 106:127. 2010
Verified:
01/17/2012 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
8 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Panicum glaucum L.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chaetochloa glauca (L.) Scribn.
Chamaeraphis glauca (L.) Kuntze
Setaria glauca (L.) P. Beauv.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Chemisquy, M. A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106:107-130. URL: http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
  2. Gutiérrez, H. F. 2015. Las especies americanas del género Cenchrus s.l. (Poaceae, Panioideae, Paniceae). Darwiniana 3:114-200.
  3. Simon, B. K. 2010. New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Austrobaileya 8:187-219.
  4. Verloove, F. 2012. New combinations in Cenchrus (Paniceae, Poaceae) in Europe and the Mediterranean area. Willdenowia 42:77-78. URL: http://www.bgbm.org/bgbmpress/willdenowia.htm Note: = Cenchrus spicatus (L.) Cav.
Common names
English
bajra –
bulrush millet –
cattail millet –
horse millet –
Indian millet –
pearl millet –
French
mil africain –
millet à chandelles –
millet perle –
German
Negerhirse –
Perlhirse –
India (Hindi)
bajira –
Italian
miglio perlato –
Portuguese
milheto –
Spanish
mijo negro –
mijo perla –
Swedish
pärlhirs –
Transcribed Chinese
yu gu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2CultivatedAfrica Africa  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedNorthern America United States  
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesIllinois 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesMissouri 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesNebraska 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesOklahoma 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesWisconsin 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaNorthwestern U.S.A.United StatesWashington 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesLouisiana 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesTennessee 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesVirginia 
3AdventiveNorthern AmericaSouthwestern U.S.A.United StatesCalifornia 
Cultivated
Africa
  • REGION: Africa
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Adventive
Northern America
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin]
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Washington]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodderfor birdseedRehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics Note: = Pennisetum americanum
Animal foodforage Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Environmentalerosion control University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). URL: http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/
Environmentalornamental Meyer, M. H. 2012. Chapter 3. Ornamental grasses in the United States. Hort. Rev. 39:121-152.
Environmentalsoil improver University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). URL: http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/
Human foodcereal Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun
Weedpotential seed contaminantfide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables


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