Plant Details

Accepted name:: Echinochloa pyramidalis (Lam.) Hitchc. & Chase [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
antelope grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
capim do limpopo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
chenga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ikigugu	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
limpopo grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
limpopo-grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
namatura	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ngobya	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
nyeki	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
olifantsgras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
rinundi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
stachelhirse	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Panicum pyramidale Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 171 (1791).
Echinochloa frumentacea var. violacea Vanderyst Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 10: 244 (1919), nom. provis.
Echinochloa guadeloupensis (Hack.) Wiegand Rhodora 23: 63 (1921).
Echinochloa holubii (Stapf) Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 606 (1920).
Echinochloa kimpokoensis Vanderyst Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 10: 244 (1919), not validly publ.
Echinochloa pyramidalis f. decomposita Chiov. Racc. Bot.: 130 (1935).
Echinochloa pyramidalis var. guadeloupensis (Hack.) Stehlé Caribbean Forester 5: 188 (1944).
Echinochloa pyramidalis var. violacea Vanderyst Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 16: 670 (1925).
Echinochloa quadrifaria (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Chiov. Malpighia 34: 537 (1937).
Echinochloa quadrifaria var. atroviolacea (A.Rich.) Chiov. Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot., Angiosp.-Gymnosp.: 275 (1939).
Echinochloa senegalensis Mez Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 56 (1917).
Echinochloa verticillata Berhaut Mém. Publiés Soc. Bot. France 1953-1954: 9 (1954).
Panicum atroviolaceum A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 368 (1850).
Panicum crus-galli f. aristatum Chiov. Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 7: 63 (1897), nom. illeg.
Panicum crus-galli var. molle Peter Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 40(1): 179 (1930).
Panicum crus-galli f. muticum Chiov. Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 7: 63 (1897), nom. illeg.
Panicum crus-galli var. polystachyum Asch. & Schweinf. Ill. Fl. Égypte: 159 (1887).
Panicum crus-galli var. sphacelatum Hack. Bol. Soc. Brot. 6: 140 (1888), nom. nud.
Panicum frumentaceum var. cuspidatum Nees in J.F.Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Dokum.: 207 (1843).
Panicum hildebrandtii Hack. in T.A.Durand & H.Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 750 (1894), nom. nud.
Panicum holubii Stapf in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 7: 394 (1899).
Panicum pyramidale var. hebetatum Stapf in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 7: 369 (1898).
Panicum pyramidale var. quadrifarium (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Chiov. Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 298 (1908 publ. 1907).
Panicum pyramidale var. spadiceum Peter Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 40(1 Anh.): 33 (1930).
Panicum quadrifarium Hochst. ex A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 367 (1850).
Panicum setarioides Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 74 (1853).
Panicum spadiciferum Peter Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 140 (1937), pro syn.
Panicum spadiferum Peter Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Phys.-Math. Kl., n.f., 13(2): 110 (1928), nom. nud.
Panicum spectabile var. guadeloupense Hack. Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 1: 328 (1897).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Echinochloa pyramidalis (Lam.) Hitchc. & Chase	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Echinochloa pyramidalis (Lam.)A.Hitchc. & Chase	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Echinochloa pyramidalis Hichock et Chase	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Panicum pyramidatum Lam.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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