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Taxon:
Pennisetum schweinfurthii
Pilg.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Pennisetum
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:
103531
Place of publication:
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30:121. 1901
Comment:
belongs in
Cenchrus
, but combination not yet made
Verified:
10/13/2000
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
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Reference(s)
Chemisquy,M. A. et al.
2010. Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of
Pennisetum
,
Cenchrus
and
Odontelytrum
(Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in
Cenchrus
. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106:107-130.
URL:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
Note:
this study included
Pennisetum schweinfurthii
, and it was resolved sister to the clade including pearl millet
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute.
African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php
Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989-. Flora of Ethiopia
Note:
Eritrea added in 2000
Martel, E. et al.
1996. Assessment of genome organization among diploid species (2n = 2x = 14) belonging to primary and tertiary gene pools of pearl millet using fluorescent in situ hybridization with rDNA probes. Genome 39:680-687.
Note:
it recognizes
Pennisetum schweinfurthii
as a 2n=14 species, and part of the tertiary gene pool of pearl millet; it found "distinctly" physical differences in arrangement of rDNA loci for this species that supports meiotic abnormalities in hybrids with
Cenchrus americanus
Nagesh, C. & N. C. Subrahmanyam.
1996. Interspecific hybridization of
Pennisetum glaucum
(L.) R. Br. with wild relatives. J. Pl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 5:1-5.
Common names
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Ethiopia
n.w.
1
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Sudan
Native
Africa
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
(n.w.),
Sudan
Economic Uses
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