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Taxon:
Vossia cuspidata
(Roxb.) Griff.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Vossia
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Rottboelliinae
Nomen number:
416245
Place of publication:
Not. pl. asiat. 3:70; Icon. pl. asiat. 3: t. 153. 1851
Comment:
original publication not seen
Verified:
02/15/2000
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Ischaemum cuspidatum
Roxb.
No images
Reference(s)
Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection (on-line resource).
URL:
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/prohib.html
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Vossia+cuspidata&quantity=1
Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
Common names
English
hippo grass –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Burkina Faso
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Ghana
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Mali
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Nigeria
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Sierra Leone
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Myanmar
Native
Africa
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burkina Faso
,
Ghana
,
Mali
,
Nigeria
,
Sierra Leone
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
INDO-CHINA:
Myanmar
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Weed
Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection (on-line resource).
URL:
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/prohib.html
Name
References