Eragrostis superba - Unknown
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Internal ID UUID644030398fb24603485864
Scientific name Eragrostis superba
Authority Peyr.
First published in Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. 38: 584 (1860)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Eragrostis alata Ficalho & Hiern Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 2: 32. 1881 (1881)
Eragrostis elata Munro ex Ficalho & Hiern Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 2(1): 32. 1881 [1881-87 publ. Dec 1881]
Eragrostis platystachys Franch. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 382 (1895)
Eragrostis superba var. contracta Peter Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 40(1 Anh.): 107. 1930
Uniola jardinii Steud. ex Jard. Herb. Cote Occ. Afr. 8, nomen; Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 281.

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Language Common/alternative name
English wilman lovegrass
Afrikaans weeluisgras

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Cape Provinces
      • Caprivi Strip
      • Free State
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Gulf Of Guinea Islands
      • Zaïre
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southwest
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Honduras
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Uruguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000868497
USDA Plants ERSU
Tropicos 25511031
INPN 160618
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:401614-1
The Plant List kew-413256
Open Tree Of Life 613839
NCBI Taxonomy 391786
Nature Serve 2.138435
IPNI 401614-1
iNaturalist 162412
GBIF 2705445
Freebase /m/011c6kk5
EPPO ERASU
EOL 1114388
Calflora (Californian flora) 9908
USDA GRIN 15319
Wikipedia Eragrostis_superba

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Habitat modifies the relationship between grass and herbivore species richness in a South African savanna Čuda J, Pyšková K, Hejda M, Foxcroft LC, MacFadyen S, Storch D, Tropek R, Zambatis G, Pyšek P Ecol Evol 15-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11016939
doi:10.1002/ece3.11167
PMID:38623521
Genome size variation and polyploidy prevalence in the genus Eragrostis are associated with the global dispersal in arid area Hutang GR, Tong Y, Zhu XG, Gao LZ Front Plant Sci 13-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10040770
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1066925
PMID:36993864
Use of Gamma Radiation for the Genetic Improvement of Underutilized Plant Varieties Riviello-Flores MD, Cadena-Iñiguez J, Ruiz-Posadas LD, Arévalo-Galarza MD, Castillo-Juárez I, Soto Hernández M, Castillo-Martínez CR Plants (Basel) 26-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9102721
doi:10.3390/plants11091161
PMID:35567162
Water availability, bedrock, disturbance by herbivores, and climate determine plant diversity in South-African savanna Hejda M, Čuda J, Pyšková K, Zambatis G, Foxcroft LC, MacFadyen S, Storch D, Tropek R, Pyšek P Sci Rep 10-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8748544
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-02870-3
PMID:35013353
The discrepancy between fire ant recruitment to and performance on rodent carrion Lin C, Tarone AM, Eubanks MD Sci Rep 07-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8742042
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-04051-8
PMID:34997078
Restoration of degraded grasslands, but not invasion by Prosopis juliflora, avoids trade-offs between climate change mitigation and other ecosystem services Mbaabu PR, Olago D, Gichaba M, Eckert S, Eschen R, Oriaso S, Choge SK, Linders TE, Schaffner U Sci Rep 24-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7686326
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-77126-7
PMID:33235254
Checklist of the grasses of India Kellogg EA, Abbott JR, Bawa KS, Gandhi KN, Kailash BR, Ganeshaiah KN, Shrestha UB, Raven P PhytoKeys 16-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC10311516
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.163.38393
PMID:37397271
Large herbivores maintain a two‐phase herbaceous vegetation mosaic in a semi‐arid savanna Augustine DJ, Wigley BJ, Ratnam J, Kibet S, Nyangito M, Sankaran M Ecol Evol 22-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6875565
doi:10.1002/ece3.5750
PMID:31788213
Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures Oduor CO, Karanja NK, Onwonga RN, Mureithi SM, Pelster D, Nyberg G BMC Ecol 06-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6219041
doi:10.1186/s12898-018-0202-z
PMID:30400929
Temporal and spatial variability in the nutritive value of pasture vegetation and supplement feedstuffs for domestic ruminants in Western Kenya Onyango AA, Dickhoefer U, Rufino MC, Butterbach-Bahl K, Goopy JP Asian-Australas J Anim Sci 26-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6502729
doi:10.5713/ajas.18.0114
PMID:30056650
Irrigation levels affects biomass yields and morphometric characteristics of range grasses in arid rangelands of Kenya Koech OK, Kinuthia RN, Karuku GN, Mureithi SM, Wanjogu R Springerplus 22-Sep-2016
PMCID:PMC5031578
doi:10.1186/s40064-016-3309-8
PMID:27722058
Range Analysis and Terrain Preference of Adult Southern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in a South African Private Game Reserve: Insights into Carrying Capacity and Future Management Thompson S, Avent T, Doughty LS PLoS One 13-Sep-2016
PMCID:PMC5021330
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161724
PMID:27622566
Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ among sexual and apomictic flowering plants Dellinger AS, Essl F, Hojsgaard D, Kirchheimer B, Klatt S, Dawson W, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Weber E, Winter M, Hörandl E, Dullinger S New Phytol 28-Oct-2015
PMCID:PMC4950116
doi:10.1111/nph.13694
PMID:26508329
Are There Consistent Grazing Indicators in Drylands? Testing Plant Functional Types of Various Complexity in South Africa’s Grassland and Savanna Biomes Linstädter A, Schellberg J, Brüser K, Moreno García CA, Oomen RJ, du Preez CC, Ruppert JC, Ewert F PLoS One 11-Aug-2014
PMCID:PMC4128714
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104672
PMID:25111802
Faster Rubisco Is the Key to Superior Nitrogen-Use Efficiency in NADP-Malic Enzyme Relative to NAD-Malic Enzyme C4 Grasses Ghannoum O, Evans JR, Chow WS, Andrews TJ, Conroy JP, von Caemmerer S Plant Physiol 01-Feb-2005
PMCID:PMC1065364
doi:10.1104/pp.104.054759
PMID:15665246

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