Details for: APG 55379, Cymbopogon caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf, IBS 3918

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cymbopogon caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf

Top Name:

IBS 3918

Origin:

Collected – India

Maintained:

Australian Pastures Genebank

Received by APG:

01 Jan 1985

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		BASE 55379 1986___1_____ SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cymbopogon caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf

Top Name:

IBS 3918

Origin:

Collected – India

Maintained:

Australian Pastures Genebank

Received by APG:

01 Jan 1985

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

11 December 1984.
Locality: 13KM S COIMBATORE ON POLLACHI RD. (SH10)
Aspect: Flat; Coll Source: Wild; Landuse: Grassland/Meadow; Propagule: Seed; Parentrock: Schist, Gneiss; Ph: 8; Slope: Level; Soil Drainage: Seasonally Dry; Soil_Texture: Sand; Assoc_Species: Cymbopogon; Rainfall: 600; Notes: G'land,Stony Red/Brn.Sand

11 December 1984. India
Coordinates: 10.8800, 76.9800 (Map it)
Elevation: 390m.

Collector(s):

Staples, Ian Department of Primary Industries

Donated

01 January 1985. India

Donator(s):

Staples, Ian Department of Primary Industries

01 July 2014. Australia

Donator(s):

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

08 September 2015. Australia

Donator(s):

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland

Accession Names and Identifiers

IBS 3918

Type: Collector identifier

AusTRCF 106643

Type: Donor identifier

Group: AusTRCF

Austraian Tropical Forage

CPI 106643

Type: Institute identifier

Group: CPI

Commonwealth Plant Introduction

ALP 5.2

Type: Priority Score

Narrative

Group Note

Cymbopogon caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf

Genus:

Cymbopogon

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Anthristiriinae

Nomen number:

12796

Place of publication:

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1906:360. 1906

Verified:

02/08/2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Common names

English
kachi grass –

Other conspecific taxa

Cymbopogon caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf subsp. caesius (0 active accession[s])
Cymbopogon caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf subsp. giganteus (Chiov.) Sales (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)

Andropogon excavatus Hochst.
Cymbopogon excavatus (Hochst.) Stapf

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study
COMMENT	Notes	notes on diseases, pests, asset or weaknesses of accession	vigorous, lemon scented	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Perenniality	plant perenniality	STRONGLY PERENNIAL - Strongly Perennial	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Plant Dimensions	height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant	110:60	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Flowering	earliness to flowering	EARLY - Early Flowering	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Peak Flowering	months when peak flowering occurred	Oct-Feb	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Spread Method	method by which accession spreads	SEED - Seed	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Establishment	establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	8	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Persistence	persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	8	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Seed Production	rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	8	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Rate Of Spread	assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed)	6	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Out Of Season Green	rating for out-of-season greeness during non-growing period of species (normally winter for tropical forages)	4	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Leafiness	rating for above-ground leafiness from 1 (no leaf) to 8 (extremely leafy)	2	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Competitiveness	rating for plant competitiveness from 1 (poor) to 8 (highly competitive)	6	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Pasture Potential	rating for pasture potential 1 (no potential because seedlings died or serious weed) to 8 (high potential on broad scale)	1	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
STRESS	Drought Tolerance	rating of drought tolerance from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	6	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
STRESS	Frost Tolerance	rating of plant frost tolerance from 1 (killed by light frost) to 8 (not killed by repeated serve radiation frosts)	6	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED