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Cenchrus violaceus

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Internal ID UUID64403469b933d462297585
Scientific name Cenchrus violaceus
Authority (Lam.) Morrone
First published in Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106: 130 (2010)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Chasea violacea Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 2: 64 (1911)
Penicillaria fallax Fig. & De Not. Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Torino Ser. II, xii. 371.
Penicillaria raddiana Fig. & De Not. Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Torino , ser. 2, 12: 373 (1852)
Pennisetum americanum subsp. monodii (Maire) Brunken Amer. J. Bot. 64: 170 (1977)
Pennisetum chudeaui Maire & Trab. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. , sér. 2, 3: 523 (1931)
Pennisetum chudeaui subsp. monodianum Maire ex A.Chev. Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 14: 35. 1934 (1934)
Pennisetum chudeaui subsp. monodii Maire Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. ser. 2, 3(6): 523. 1931 [Jun 1931]
Pennisetum cognatum Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 107 (1854)
Pennisetum darfuricum Stapf & C.E.Hubb. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 283 (1933)
Pennisetum elegans Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1(2): 105. 1854 [1855 publ. 2-3 Mar 1854]
Pennisetum fallax (Fig. & De Not.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 270 (1933)
Pennisetum molle Hitchc. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 43: 91 (1930)
Pennisetum mollissimum Hochst. Flora 27: 253 (1844)
Pennisetum ochrops Stapf & C.E.Hubb. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 284 (1933)
Pennisetum ramosissimum Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 105 (1854)
Pennisetum rogeri Stapf & C.E.Hubb. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 285 (1933)
Pennisetum senegalense Steud. ex Jard. Herbor. Côte Occ. Afr. 10. 1851 (1851)
Pennisetum spicatum var. fallax (Fig. & De Not.) T.Durand & Schinz Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 785 (1894)
Pennisetum subeglume Trab. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 10: 187 (1919)
Pennisetum versicolor Schrad. Index Seminum (GOET, Gottingensis) 1827: ? (1827)
Pennisetum violaceum var. majus Kunth Enum. Pl. 1(Suppl.): 116. 1835
Pennisetum violaceum var. monodianum (Maire ex A.Chev.) Maire in Fl. Afr. Nord 1: 337 1952
Panicum violaceum Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 169 (1791)
Cenchrus rogeri (Stapf & C.E.Hubb.) Verloove Willdenowia 42: 78 (2012)
Pennisetum violaceum (Lam.) Rich. Syn. Pl. 1: 72 (1805)
Cenchrus americanus subsp. chudeaui (Maire & Trab.) Banfi & Galasso Ital. Botanist 9: 65 (2020)
Cenchrus americanus subsp. monodii (Maire) Sosef Pl. Ecol. Evol. 152: 555 (2019)

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  • Africa
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Egypt
      • Morocco
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000917267
Tropicos 25528998
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:415296-1
The Plant List kew-433032
IPNI 415296-1
iNaturalist 775319
GBIF 4146997
EPPO PESVL
USDA GRIN 313742
Tropicos 100359394
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77106069-1
The Plant List kew-462600
Open Tree Of Life 918051
NCBI Taxonomy 281397
IUCN Red List 71525275
IPNI 77106069-1
GBIF 5828202
USDA GRIN 464288

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Karyotype Variability in Wild Narcissus poeticus L. Populations from Different Environmental Conditions in the Dinaric Alps Pustahija F, Bašić N, Siljak-Yakovlev S Plants (Basel) 11-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10818684
doi:10.3390/plants13020208
PMID:38256761
Weed genomics: yielding insights into the genetics of weedy traits for crop improvement Huang Y, Wu D, Huang Z, Li X, Merotto A Jr, Bai L, Fan L aBIOTECH 09-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC10199979
doi:10.1007/s42994-022-00090-5
PMID:37220539
Unlocking the Hidden Genetic Diversity of Varicosaviruses, the Neglected Plant Rhabdoviruses Bejerman N, Dietzgen RG, Debat H Pathogens 29-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9608074
doi:10.3390/pathogens11101127
PMID:36297184
Seed Shattering: A Trait of Evolutionary Importance in Plants Maity A, Lamichaney A, Joshi DC, Bajwa A, Subramanian N, Walsh M, Bagavathiannan M Front Plant Sci 16-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8248667
doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.657773
PMID:34220883
Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali Fuller DQ, Barron A, Champion L, Dupuy C, Commelin D, Raimbault M, Denham T Afr Archaeol Rev 16-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8550313
doi:10.1007/s10437-021-09428-8
PMID:34720323
Exploitation of Heterosis in Pearl Millet: A Review K. Srivastava R, Bollam S, Pujarula V, Pusuluri M, Singh RB, Potupureddi G, Gupta R Plants (Basel) 27-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7412370
doi:10.3390/plants9070807
PMID:32605134
Unconscious selection drove seed enlargement in vegetable crops Kluyver TA, Jones G, Pujol B, Bennett C, Mockford EJ, Charles M, Rees M, Osborne CP Evol Lett 09-May-2017
PMCID:PMC6121828
doi:10.1002/evl3.6
PMID:30283639
II.1.5 Phenotyping pearl millet for adaptation to drought Vadez V, Hash T, Bidinger FR, Kholova J Front Physiol 19-Oct-2012
PMCID:PMC3475983
doi:10.3389/fphys.2012.00386
PMID:23091462
Reproductive Isolation during Domestication Dempewolf H, Hodgins KA, Rummell SE, Ellstrand NC, Rieseberg LH Plant Cell 05-Jul-2012
PMCID:PMC3426109
doi:10.1105/tpc.112.100115
PMID:22773750
Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus Chemisquy MA, Giussani LM, Scataglini MA, Kellogg EA, Morrone O Ann Bot 01-Jul-2010
PMCID:PMC2889798
doi:10.1093/aob/mcq090
PMID:20570830

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