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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pennisetum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pennisetum

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Familia  Gramineae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 28. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.       Genus  Pennisetum Rich. common name: fountaingrass

Named members of the Genus Pennisetum

1	Species  alopecuroides (L.) Spreng. common name: Chinese fountain grass, fountain grass, Australian fountain grass
2	Species  americanum (L.) Leeke syn. Pennisetum glaucum
3	Species  ciliare (L.) Link
	4    Varietas  ciliare common name: buffelgrass 5    Varietas  setigerum (Vahl) Leeke common name: cow sandbur
6	Species  clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov. common name: kikuyugrass
7	Species  complanatum (Nees) Hemsl. common name: Nicaraguan fountaingrass
8	Species  flaccidum Griseb. common name: kikuyugrass
9	Species  glaucum (L.) R. Br. common name: pearl millet
10	Species  incomptum Nees. in Stend. common name: kikuyugrass
11	Species  latifolium Spreng. common name: Uruguayan fountaingrass
12	Species  macrourum Trin. common name: African feathergrass
13	Species  nervosum (Nees) Trin. common name: bentspike fountaingrass
14	Species  pedicellatum Trin.
	15    Subspecies  unispiculum Brunken common name: Kyasuma grass
16	Species  petiolare (Hochst.) Chiov. common name: petioled fountaingrass
17	Species  polystachyon (L.) J.A. Schultes
	18    Subspecies  setosum (Sw.) Brunken common name: mission grass
19	Species  purpureum Schumacher common name: elephant grass
20	Species  respiciens A. Rich. syn. Setaria adhaerens
21	Species  ruppelii Steud. syn. Pennisetum setaceum
22	Species  setaceum (Forsk.) Chiov. common name: annual fountain grass, crimson fountain grass
23	Species  setosum (Sw.) L.C. Rich. syn. Pennisetum polystachyon ssp. setosum
24	Species  typhoides auct. non (Burm.) Stapf & C.E. Hubbard syn. Pennisetum glaucum
25	Species  villosum R. Br. ex Fresen. common name: feathertop

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.