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Hyparrhenia cymbaria

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Genome
Scientific Literature
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Internal ID UUID644030e4e79bf407074508
Scientific name Hyparrhenia cymbaria
Authority Stapf
First published in Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 332 (1919)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Andropogon boivinii Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 431 (1854)
Andropogon cymbarius L. Mant. Pl. 2: 303 (1771)
Andropogon cymbarius var. lepidus (Nees) Stapf Fl. Cap. 7: 361. 1898
Andropogon intonsus Nees Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill. 114. 1841
Andropogon lepidus Nees Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill. 113. 1841
Andropogon lepidus var. intonsus (Nees) Hack. Monogr. Phan. 6: 625. 1889
Andropogon lepidus var. viridis Chiov. Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 26. 1902
Andropogon serratifolius Beyne ex Wall. Numer. List : n.º 8771B (1848)
Anthistiria cymbaria (L.) Roxb. Hort. Bengal. : 6 (1814)
Anthistiria latifolia Andersson Naturw. Reise Mossambique [Peters] 6(Bot., 2): 562. 1864
Cymbopogon cymbarius Rendle J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 38: 241 (1908)
Cymbopogon elegans Spreng. Pl. Min. Cogn. Pug. 2: 14 (1815)
Cymbopogon lepidus (Nees) Chiov. Monogr. Rapp. Colon. 24: 66 (1912)
Hyparrhenia lepida (Nees) Cufod. Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 40(Suppl.): 1406 (1970)
Sorghum cymbarium Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 791 (1891)
Sorghum lepidum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 792 (1891)
Cymbopogon cymbarius (L.) Thomson J. Discov. Source Nile 652 1863

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Language Common/alternative name
English boat thatching grass
Afrikaans bootjietamboekiegras

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Nigeria
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Comoros
      • Madagascar

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000875227
USDA Plants HYCY2
Tropicos 25514372
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:405501-1
The Plant List kew-419738
Open Tree Of Life 3954884
NCBI Taxonomy 1622064
IPNI 405501-1
iNaturalist 511984
GBIF 4147274
Freebase /m/0gh6rlm
EPPO HYRCY
USDA GRIN 19540
Wikipedia Hyparrhenia_cymbaria

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Scientific Literature Top

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Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
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
Field data on Vegetation Structure and Effects of Human Use of the Dambos Ecosystem in Northern Mozambique Mbanze AA, Mário AM, Rivaes R, Ribeiro-Barros AI, Ribeiro NS Data Brief 12-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6811917
doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104454
PMID:31667226
Ecology of the African Maize Stalk Borer, Busseola fusca (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with Special Reference to Insect-Plant Interactions Calatayud PA, Le Ru BP, van den Berg J, Schulthess F Insects 08-Jul-2014
PMCID:PMC4592576
doi:10.3390/insects5030539
PMID:26462824
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by local people in the lowlands of Konta Special Woreda, southern nations, nationalities and peoples regional state, Ethiopia Bekalo TH, Woodmatas SD, Woldemariam ZA J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 24-Sep-2009
PMCID:PMC2764637
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-5-26
PMID:19775482

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