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Panicum maximum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 5/1998 © Jörn Germer

Panicum maximum - Leaf base - Click to enlarge!

Leaf base; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 5/1998 © Jörn Germer

Panicum maximum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Panicum maximum - Inflorescence close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence close-up; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Panicum maximum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Panicum maximum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 3/2003 © Jörn Germer

Panicum maximum - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Source: Lit.# [14]

Dataset

Identifier: 116
Date of entry: 02.10.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Guineagrass, Hamilgrass

German: Guineagras

Mandarin: 大黍 (da shu)

Portuguese: Capim-colonião

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Cyperales (91)

        Family: Poaceae (73)(family description)

          Genus: Panicum (1)

            Epithet: maximum Jacq. (1)

maximum => largest

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

External links

Check for Panicum maximum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [14] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1984): Plants of cropland in Western Samoa with special reference to taro. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.

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