Poaceae
Panicum

Panicum haplocaulos Pilg.

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 49 (1902)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Senegal to Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zambia. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
  • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  • Clayton, W.D. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 1-231. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • 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.
  • Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
  • 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.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 502 (1956).
  • Pilg. in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 33: 49 (1902).
  • Stapf in Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 705 (1920).
  • Troupin, Fl. Garamba 1: 64 (1956).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Bullock, A.A. [2674] Tanzania K003390626 Yes
Bidgood, G.S.; Leliyo, G.; Vollesen, K.B. [7945] Tanzania K003390623 Yes
McCallum-Webster, M. [T43] Tanzania K003390627 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [1343] Zambia K003392440 Yes
Bingham, M.G.; Peters, C.R. [12120] Zambia K003392446 Yes
McCallum Webster, M. [A115] Zambia K003392442 Yes
[Fotius G.] [K-409] Senegal K003336044 Yes
Saadou, M. [794] Niger K003336045 Yes
Pawek, J. [13919] Malawi K003392439 Yes
Vesey-Fitzgerald, D. [2316] Tanzania K003390625 Yes
Bingham, M.G.; Bingham, P.E. [10807] Zambia K003392445 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [1343] Zambia K003392443 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [2766] Zambia K003392444 Yes
Boudet, G. [3887] Senegal K003336043 Yes
Schweinfurth, G. [2003] Sudan K000256713 Type Yes
Schweinfurth, G. [2003] Sudan K000256714 Type Yes
Vesey-Fitzgerald, D. [2311] Tanzania K003390624 Yes
Astle, W.L. [1922] Zambia K003392441 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

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

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • 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.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0