Poaceae
Eragrostis

Eragrostis prolifera (Sw.) Steud.

First published in Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 177 (1854)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America, W. Tropical Africa to Angola. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is has environmental uses.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Brazil Northeast, Burkina, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Senegal, Southwest Caribbean, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

France, Palestine, Switzerland

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Cirilo, N. & Proctor, G.R. (1994). Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41-42: 73-80.
  • Danin, A. (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina area: 1-517. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
  • Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (1994). Flora Mesoamericana 6: 1-543. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D., Peterson, P.M. & Sánchez Vega, I. (2012). The genus Eragrostis (Poaceae : Chloridoideae) in northwestern South America (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) : morphological and taxonomic studies: 1-195. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Aké Assi, L. (2002). Flore de la Côte-d'Ivoire: catalogue systématique, biogéographie et écologie. II. Boissiera 58: 1-401.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Cirilo, N. & Proctor, G.R. (1994). Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41-42: 73-80.
  • Danin, A. (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina area: 1-517. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
  • Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (1994). Flora Mesoamericana 6: 1-543. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Forzza, R.C. & al. (2013). Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jones, M. (1991). A checklist of Gambian plants: 1-33. Michael Jones, The Gambia College.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Gould, F.W. [12642] Mexico K002948633 Yes
Wheeler Haines, R. [163] Nigeria K003815317 Yes
Donis, C. [1651] Congo, Republic of the K003816770 No
Lean, O.B. [73] Niger K003815298 Yes
Swamsoni [0] Brazil K000001384 Yes
Rogeon, J.-F. [481] Mali K003815293 Yes
Schafer, P.A. [8961] Togo K003815311 Yes
Liebmann [21] Mexico K000308766 Type Yes
Robyns, W. [3745] Congo, Republic of the K003816769 No
Swallen, J.R. [2369] Mexico K002948631 Yes
Salzmann [s.n.] Brazil K000001385 Type Yes
Adanson [s.n.] Senegal K003815288 Yes
Adam, J.G. [9692] Senegal K003815292 Yes
[A. Moster] [s.n.] Sao Tome and Principe K003816765 No
Pohl, R.W.; Davidse, G. [11655] Costa Rica K002948641 Yes
Davey, J.T. [248A] Mali K003815294 Yes
Santamaría, D.; Solano, D.; Moraga, M.; Gamboa R.B.; Zúñiga, A.A. [5403] Costa Rica K001871517 Yes
Rose Innes, R. [104] Ghana K003815310 Yes
Chevalier, A. [[02261]] Benin K003815314 Yes
Adanson [130C] Senegal K003815290 Yes
Banks, J. [s.n.] K000308777 Unknown Type Material Yes
Chevalier, A.J.B. [4456] Benin K003815313 Yes
Schafer, P.A. [8658] Togo K003815312 Yes
Chevalier, A. [[02294]] Benin K003815315 Yes
Pearson, H.H.W. [2344] Angola K003363431 Yes
Irvine, F.R. [2859] Ghana K003815304 Yes
Pohl, R.W.; Davidse, G. [11284] Costa Rica K002948640 Yes
Perrotet [958] Senegal K003815287 Yes
Schlechter [12817] Angola K000366324 Type Yes
Davey, J.T. [77] Mali K003815297 Yes
Pearson, H.H.W. [2175] Angola K003363438 Yes
Adanson [s.n.] Senegal K003815286 Yes
Rattray, J. [s.n.] Sao Tome and Principe K003816767 No
[Vogel] [96] Niger K003815279 Yes
Salzmann [s.n.] Brazil K000001386 Isotype Yes
Adam, J.G. [9200] Senegal K003815283 Yes
Matuda, E. [[2722]] Mexico K002948630 Yes
[Thonning]; Vogel [382] Nigeria K003815303 Yes
Smart, H.P. [38] Belize K002948634 Yes
Donis [2377] Congo, Republic of the K003816768 No
Gossweiler, J. [1668] Angola K003363435 Yes
Rose Innes, R. [s.n.] Ghana K003815308 Yes
Hall, J.B. [1905] Ghana K003815309 Yes
Gossweiler, J. [1668] Angola K003363432 Yes
Pearson, H.H.W. [2297] Angola K003363437 Yes
Boudet, G. [6997] Mali K003815299 No
Peck, M.E. [69] Belize K002948636 Yes
Davey, J.T.; M.H. [9] Mali K003815295 Yes
s.coll. [072] Mali K003815296 Yes
Milne-Redhead, E. [2[5]08] Angola K003363433 Yes
Gardner [1185] Brazil K000001383 Yes
Adam, J.-G. [19859] Senegal K003815280 Yes
Monteiro [s.n.] Angola K003363439 Yes
Ankrah, J.O. [s.n.] Ghana K003815306 Yes
Hitchcock, A.S. [8533] Costa Rica K002948639 Yes
Schipp, W.A. [894] Belize K002948637 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Nigeria K003815316 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Senegal K003815291 Yes
Farrow, R.A. [135] Mali K003815301 Yes
Heudelot, M. [[394]] Senegal K003815289 Yes
Lean, O.B. [81] Niger K003815302 Yes
Brown, W.H.; Brown, A.H. [122] Angola K003363434 Yes
Quintas, F. [s.n.] Sao Tome and Principe K003816766 No
Vogel [784] Niger K003815318 Yes
Greenway, P.J. [9259] Kenya K003362631 Yes
Heudelot [545] Senegal K003815284 Yes
Innes, R. [s.n.] Ghana K003815305 No
Pohl, R.W. [12713] Nicaragua K002948638 Yes
Liebmann [432] Mexico K000308765 Type Yes
Schipp, W.A. [894] Belize K002948635 Yes
Smith, C. [2287] Congo, Republic of the K003816771 No
Welw. [7366] Angola K003363436 Yes
[Adanson] [[130]] Senegal K003815285 Yes
Berhaut [1043] Senegal K003815282 Yes
Berhaut [2832] Senegal K003815281 Yes
Ward, C.J.; Ward, J.D. [69] Angola K003363430 Yes
Gould, F.W. [12607] Mexico K002948632 Yes
Harvey, L.H. [8552] Mexico Eragrostis excelsa K002948642 Yes
Wright, C. [3425] Cuba Eragrostis excelsa K000308783 Type Yes
Ekman, E.L. [11192] Cuba Eragrostis domingensis K000308782 Type Yes
Vogel [s.n.] Nigeria Eragrostis domingensis K000366524 Type Yes
Hagerup, O. [105] Niger Eragrostis domingensis K000366526 Type Yes
Vogel [s.n.] Niger Eragrostis domingensis K000366525 Type Yes
Leprieur [s.n.] Eragrostis albescens K000366527 Type Yes

Sources

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0