Poaceae
Andropogon

Andropogon eucomus Nees

First published in Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 104 (1841)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Congo to Uganda and S. Africa, Comoros, Madagascar. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Ethiopia, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris.
  • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Lewalle, J. (1970). Liste floristique et répartition altitudinale de la flore du Burundi occidental: 1-84. Université officielle de Bujumbura.
  • Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Vorontsova, M.S., Ratovonirina, G. & Randriamboavonjy, T. (2013). Revision of Andropogon and Diectomis (Poaceae: Sacchareae) in Madagascar and the new Andropogon itremoensis from the Itremo massif. Kew Bulletin 68: 193-207.

Kew Bulletin

  • (Nees von Esenbeck 1841: 104).
  • Baker, J. G. (1883). Contributions to the flora of Madagascar, part 1: Polypetalae. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20: 87 – 304.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Birkinshaw, C., Andriamihajarivo, T., Raharimampionona, J., Razafindrakoto, N., Ratolojanahary, M., Randrianaina, L., Randrianarivelo, C., Rasolondraibe, B., Ravohangy, A., Razafindrasoa, R. & Andrianirina, Z. (2008). Massif d'Itremo: présentation du site. Missouri Botanical Garden Madagascar Program Report.
  • Bosser, J. M. (1968). Note sur les graminées de Madagascar – VII. Adansonia n.s. 8: 513 – 522.
  • Bosser, J. M. (1969). Graminées des Pâturages et des Cultures à Madagascar. ORSTOM, Paris.
  • Camus, A. (1924 publ. 1925). Andropogonées nouvelles de Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 71: 921 – 924.
  • Camus, A.(1925). Andropogon tsaratananensis A. Camus, graminée nouvelle de Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 591 – 592.
  • Camus, A.(1928). Graminées nouvelles de Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 74: 631 – 635.
  • Camus, A.(1931). Graminées nouvelles de Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 78: 8 – 9.
  • Camus, A.(1952). Andropogon et Nastus nouveaux de Madagascar. Notul. Syst. (Paris) 14: 213 – 214.
  • Clayton, W. D. & Renvoize, S. A. (1986). Genera Graminum: Grasses of the World. H.M.S.O., London.
  • Clayton, W. D. (1967). Andropogon pteropholis W. D. Clayton. Hooker's Icon. Pl. 37: t. 3644.
  • Clayton, W. D., Vorontsova, M. S., Harman, K. T. & Williamson, H. (2013). GrassBase — The Online World Grass Flora. Kew: The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/index.htm. Accessed 6 February 2013.
  • Franchet, A. R. (1895). Contributions à la Flore du Congo français: famille des Graminées. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 309 – 392.
  • Fresenius, J. B. G. W. (1837). Beiträge zur flora von Abyssinien. Mus. Senckenberg. 2: 103 – 286.
  • Hackel, E. (1885). Andropogoneae novae. Flora 68: 131 – 143.
  • Hackel, E. (1889). Andropogoneae. In: A. De Candolle & A. C. P. De Candolle (eds), Monographiae Phanerogamarum Prodromi nunc Continuato, nunc Revisio Auctoribus Alphonso et Casimir de Candolle Aliisque Botanicis Ultra Memoratis 6. G. Masson, Paris.
  • Hooker, J. D. (1864). On the plants of the temperate regions of the Cameroons Mountains and islands in the Bight of Benin; collected by Mr. Gustav Mann, government botanist. J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 171 – 240.
  • IUCN (2001). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland & Cambridge.
  • Koechlin, J., Guillaumet, J.-L. & Morat, P. (1997). Flore et Végétation de Madagascar. Gantner Verlag, Vaduz.
  • Kull, C. A. (2004). Isle of fire: the political ecology of landscape burning in Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.
  • Kuntze, C. E. O. (1891). Revisio generum plantarum: vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomeclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum 2: 375 – 1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas 2. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae.
  • Merrill, E. D. (1917). Notes on the flora of Kwangtung Province, China. Philipp. J. Sci., C 12: 99 – 111.
  • Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D. (1841). Florae Africae australioris illustrationes monographicae. Sumtibus Prausnitzianis, Glogaviae.
  • Palisot de Beauvois, A. M. F. J. (1812). Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: ou nouveaux genres des Graminées: avec figures représentant les caractères de tous les genres. Palisot de Beauvois, Paris.
  • Rendle, A. B. (1899). Catalogue of the African Plants Collected by Dr. F. Welwitsch in 1853 – 61. 2(1): 1 – 260. British Museum (Natural History), London.
  • Roberty, G. E. (1960). Monographie Systématique des Andropogoneés du globe. Publié conjointement par Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Ville de Genève et Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Paris.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Ministère de l’Environnement et des Forêts (2012). Plan d’Aménagement et de gestion de la nouvelle aire protégée du massif d’Itremo Ambatofinandrahana, Region Amoron’i Mania. Unpublished report.
  • Sales, F. (2002). Andropogon. In: G. V. Pope & E. S. Martins (eds), Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 60 – 75. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Simon, B. K., Clayton, W. D., Harman, K. T., Vorontsova, M. S., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. (2013). GrassWorld. http://grassworld.myspecies.info. Accessed 6 February 2013.
  • Skendzic, E. M., Columbus, J. T. & Cerros-Tlatilpa, R. (2007). Phylogenetics of Andropogoneae (Poaceae: Panicoideae) based on nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer and chloroplast trnL-F sequences. Aliso 23: 530 – 54.
  • Soreng, R. J., Davidse, G., Peterson, P. M., Zuloaga, F. O., Judziewicz, E. J., Filgueiras, T. S., Morrone, O. & Romaschenko, K. (2013). A world-wide phylogenetic classification of Poaceae (Gramineae). Catalogue of New World Grasses. http://www.tropicos.org/docs/meso/CLASSIFICATION%20OF%20world%20grasses%202012%20Oct%2018c.htm. Accessed 6 February 2013.
  • Swartz, O. P. (1788). Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus descriptionum Vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783 – 87. In Bibliopoliis Acad. M. Swederi, Holmiae.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 2(2): 1-94. ORSTOM, Bangui.
  • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  • Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Lewalle, J. (1970). Liste floristique et répartition altitudinale de la flore du Burundi occidental: 1-84. Université officielle de Bujumbura.
  • Robyns, W. (1929). Flore Agrostologique du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1: 1-229. Goemaere, Bruxelles.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Voeltzkow, A. (1917). Flora und Fauna der Comoren: 428-480.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • D.M. Napper, Grasses of Tanganyika: 102 (1965).
  • Eggeling, Ann. list grasses Ug.: 2 (1947).
  • Jackson & Wiehe, Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 28 (1958).
  • K.W. Harker & D.M. Napper, An Illustrated Guide to the Grasses of Uganda p. 15 (1960).
  • Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr.: 104 (1841).
  • Robyns, Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 124 (1929).
  • Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 3: 54 (1955).
  • Stapf in Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 230 (1919).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Oct 21, 2019 Osborne, J.; Datizua, C.; Zandamela, J.; Melecuane, B. (driver); Chilosse, E.P. (guide) [JO1678] Mozambique K001346502 No
Schlechter [288] South Africa K000280583 Unknown Type Material Yes
Smook, L. [5067] South Africa K003910046 No
Pole-Evans, I.B. [1008] South Africa K003910041 No
Giess, W. [10104] Namibia K003910025 No
Smook, L. [5019] South Africa K003910045 No
Fourcade, H.G. [2533] South Africa K003910043 No
Scheepers, J.C. [838] South Africa K003910033 No
Wilms, F. [1682] South Africa K003910036 No
Smuts, J.C. [336] South Africa K003910038 No
Davidse, G. [6697] South Africa K003910030 No
Godfrey, R.; Acocks, J. [SA-1600] South Africa K003910035 No
Rakotonirina, G.A.; Antilahimena, P.; Ralaijaona, B.; Syde, A.R.; Rasoanindriana, H.M.; Razafindraibe, H. [86] Madagascar K001890562 No
Werdermann, E.; Oberdieck, H.D. [1684] South Africa K003910032 No
Vorster, P. [528] South Africa K003910051 No
Du Toit, P.C.V. [1053] South Africa K003910028 No
Smook, L. [2688] South Africa K003910027 No
Muller, P.J. [2270] South Africa K003910047 No
Westfall, R.H. [1607] South Africa K003910026 No
[W. J. Lown] [864] South Africa K003910044 No
Bührmann, A.E. [30] South Africa K003910031 No
Wells, M.J. [2367] South Africa K003910034 No
Zambatis, N. [1437] South Africa K003910042 No
s.coll. [87] South Africa K003910039 No
Smook, L. [4133] South Africa K003910050 No
Du Toit, P.C.V. [713] South Africa K003910048 No
Drège South Africa K000280581 Isosyntype Yes
Drège South Africa K000280580 Type Yes
Rehmann, A. [5675] South Africa K003910040 No
Acocks, J.P.H. [2175] South Africa K003910029 No
Rogers [25325] South Africa K003910049 No
South Africa K000280582 Type Yes
Rogers, F.A. [25325] South Africa K003910037 No

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