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Taxon:  Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. splendida (Stapf) Clayton



Summary
Genus:
Setaria
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:
103554
Place of publication:
Kew Bull. 33:506. 1979
Verified:
09/08/1986 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
3 (3  active, 3  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. (61 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. anceps (Stapf) Veldkamp (0 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. aurea (Hochst. ex A. Braun) Clayton (1 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. sphacelata (1 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Setaria splendida Stapf

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Reference(s)
  1. Cameron, A. G. et al. 1995. Performance of forages introduced into Kalimantan, Indonesia, by the South-East Asian Forage Seeds Project. Genet. Res. Commun. 21:2.
  2. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960-
  3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  4. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  5. Niang, A. et al. 1994. Mimosa scabrella: a tree for high places. Agroforest. Today 6(2):7.
  6. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  7. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:201.
  8. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
Common names
English
broadleaf setaria –
splendida setaria –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaCape Province 
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal 
2CultivatedAfrica Africa  
6Other     
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sudan
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal]
Cultivated
Africa
  • REGION: Africa
Other ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodder 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:201.
Animal foodforage 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:201.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=103554. Accessed 18 July 2025.


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