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Internal ID UUID644031c24bc78705060285
Scientific name Panicum repens
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. ed. 2 : 87 (1762)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Panicum arenarium Brot. Fl. Lusit. 1: 82 (1804)
Panicum chromatostigma Pilg. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 48 (1902)
Panicum convolutum Beauv. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 319 (1824)
Panicum grossarium Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 19. 1775 (1775)
Panicum ischaemoides Retz. Observ. Bot. 4: 17 (1768)
Panicum kiensieleense Vanderyst Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 10: 246 (1919)
Panicum kinshasaense Vanderyst Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 10: 247 (1919)
Panicum leiogonum Delile Fl. Aegypt. Illustr. 51.
Panicum littorale C.Mohr ex Vasey Bot. Gaz. 3: 106 (1879)
Panicum nyanzense K.Schum. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 333 (1897)
Panicum pauciflorum Bory ex Nees Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 236 (1829)
Panicum polyphyllum Peter Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Phys.-Math. Kl. , n.f., 13(2): 20 (1928)
Panicum polystachion Ucria Hort. Panhorm. : 54 (1789)
Panicum repens var. ischaemoides (Retz.) Boerl. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 8: 62. 1890
Panicum tuberosum Llanos Fragm. Pl. Filip. : 40 (1851)
Panicum repens var. arenarium (Brot.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(3): 363. 1898
Panicum repens var. elatum Lojac. Fl. Sicul. 3: 267 (1909)
Panicum repens var. leiogonum (Delile) Schweinf. Bull. Inst. Égypte , sér. 2, 8: 329 (1887 publ. 1888)

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Language Common/alternative name
English torpedo grass
Arabic سيسون
Arabic ثمام زاحف
Persian ارزن جویباری
Finnish juolahirssi
French millet rampant
Hausa Ƙafifiya
Hebrew דוחן זוחל
Japanese ハイキビ
Portuguese escalracho
Sinhala ඇටවරා
Thai หญ้าชันกาด
Chinese 枯骨草
Chinese 铺地黍根
Chinese 铺地黍
Chinese 舖地黍

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores
      • Canary Islands
      • Madeira
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Egypt
      • Libya
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Cape Provinces
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Aldabra
      • Madagascar
      • Seychelles
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Yemen
    • China
      • China South-central
      • China Southeast
      • Hainan
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Nansei-shoto
      • Taiwan
    • Western Asia
      • Cyprus
      • East Aegean Islands
      • Iraq
      • Lebanon-Syria
      • Palestine
      • Turkey
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • Bangladesh
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Sri Lanka
      • West Himalaya
    • Indo-China
      • Andaman Islands
      • Cambodia
      • Laos
      • Myanmar
      • South China Sea
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Borneo
      • Cocos (keeling) Islands
      • Jawa
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Malaya
      • Philippines
      • Sulawesi
      • Sumatera
    • Papuasia
      • New Guinea
  • Europe
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Kriti
      • Sicilia
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Baleares
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Sardegna
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Louisiana
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
  • Pacific
    • North-central Pacific
      • Hawaii
    • Northwestern Pacific
      • Caroline Islands
      • Marianas
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Bahamas
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000886049
Florida Plant Atlas 1652
Flora of Alabama 4957
USDA Plants PARE3
Tropicos 25509819
INPN 112233
Flora of Italy 7780
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:412908-1
The Plant List kew-430067
Open Tree Of Life 793258
Observations.org 141148
NCBI Taxonomy 158137
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0200002783
Nature Serve 2.131742
IUCN Red List 164447
IPNI 412908-1
iNaturalist 166096
GBIF 2705093
Freebase /m/0h_cfm5
FEIS plants/graminoid/panrep
EPPO PANRE
EOL 1115477
Calflora (Californian flora) 8687
USDA GRIN 26620
Wikipedia Panicum_repens

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Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Ecological weed management and square planting influenced the weed management, and crop productivity in direct-seeded rice Nagargade M, Singh MK, Tyagi V, Govindasamy P, Choudhary AK, Rajpoot K, Kumar A, Singh P, Sarangi D Sci Rep 06-May-2024
PMCID:PMC11074338
doi:10.1038/s41598-024-56945-y
PMID:38710732
Comparative studies on the cultivation, yield, and nutritive value of an edible mushroom, Pleurotus tuber-regium (Rumph. ex Fr.) Singer, grown under different agro waste substrates Aswathy S, Shyamalagowri S, Hari S, Kanimozhi M, Meenambiga SS, Thenmozhi M, Karthiyayini R, Suresh D, Manjunathan J 3 Biotech 30-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10981651
doi:10.1007/s13205-024-03968-x
PMID:38562248
Pest categorisation of Pratylenchus loosi Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Migheli Q, Vloutoglou I, Gobbi A, Maiorano A, Pautasso M, Reignault PL EFSA J 16-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10790189
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8548
PMID:38229874
Feed plants, ethnoveterinary medicine, and biocultural values: insights on the Luchuan pig from Hakka communities in China Liufu Y, Zhou J, Fu Q, Shao M, Xie Y, Luo B J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 15-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10502998
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00613-4
PMID:37710305
An extracellular polysaccharide is involved in the aluminum tolerance of Pullulanibacillus sp. CA42, a newly isolated strain from the Chinese water chestnut growing in an actual acid sulfate soil area in Vietnam Aizawa T, Sato J, Saito S, Yasuda T, Maruyama Y, Urai M Front Microbiol 28-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10493610
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1241244
PMID:37700869
Molecular phylogeny and morphology reveal two new graminicolous species, Curvularia aurantia sp. nov. and C. vidyodayana sp. nov. with new records of Curvularia spp. from Sri Lanka Ferdinandez HS, Manamgoda DS, Udayanga D, Munasinghe MS, Castlebury LA Fungal Syst Evol 28-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10918625
doi:10.3114/fuse.2023.12.11
PMID:38455951
Pest categorisation of Blissus insularis Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Grégoire J, Malumphy C, Kertesz V, Maiorano A, MacLeod A EFSA J 25-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10366936
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8121
PMID:37496697
The diversity and quality of forages and their potency as herbal anthelmintic for swamp buffalo in Brebes District, Central Java Satrija F, Nurhidayah N, Astuti DA, Retnani EB, Murtini S Vet World 19-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10446728
doi:10.14202/vetworld.2023.1496-1504
PMID:37621552
Molecular characterization and SNP identification using genotyping-by-sequencing in high-yielding mutants of proso millet Francis N, Rajasekaran R, Rajagopalan VR, Bakya SV, Muthurajan R, Kumar AG, Alagarswamy S, Krishnamoorthy I, Thiyagarajan C Front Plant Sci 18-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10233037
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1108203
PMID:37275247
Multilayer perceptron-genetic algorithm as a promising tool for modeling cultivation substrate of Auricularia cornea Native to Iran Jahedi A, Salehi M, Goltapeh EM, Safaie N PLoS One 21-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9942997
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281982
PMID:36809254
An overview of underutilized benefits derived from Azolla as a promising biofertilizer in lowland rice production Marzouk SH, Tindwa HJ, Amuri NA, Semoka JM Heliyon 20-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9880398
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13040
PMID:36711306
Revitalization of small millets for nutritional and food security by advanced genetics and genomics approaches Lydia Pramitha J, Ganesan J, Francis N, Rajasekharan R, Thinakaran J Front Genet 09-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9870178
doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.1007552
PMID:36699471
From Biodiversity to Musketry: Detection of Plant Diversity in Pre-Industrial Peloponnese during the Flora Graeca Expedition Chimona C, Papadopoulou S, Kolyva F, Mina M, Rhizopoulou S Life (Basel) 23-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9785030
doi:10.3390/life12121957
PMID:36556322
Long‐term response of wetland plant communities to management intensity, grazing abandonment, and prescribed fire Sonnier G, Boughton EH, Whittington R Ecol Appl 06-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC10078234
doi:10.1002/eap.2732
PMID:36054269
The arrival of millets to the Atlantic coast of northern Iberia González-Rabanal B, Marín-Arroyo AB, Cristiani E, Zupancich A, González-Morales MR Sci Rep 03-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9633756
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-23227-4
PMID:36329241

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