Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pogonarthria squarrosa (Licht.) Pilg. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

No non-scientific names for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Diplachne menyharthii Hack. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 1: 772 (1901).
Eragrostis marlothii Hack. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 11: 404 (1889).
Leptochloa falcata Hack. Bull. Herb. Boissier 3: 386 (1895).
Leptochloa marlothii Hack. ex Dyer Index Kew., Suppl. 2: 104 (1904), pro syn.
Melica festucoides Licht. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 2: 530 (1817).
Poa squarrosa Licht. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 2: 553 (1817).
Pogonarthria falcata (Hack.) Rendle in W.P.Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. 2: 232 (1899).
Pogonarthria falcata var. condensata Hack. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 49: 173 (1904).
Pogonarthria hackelii Chiov. Ann. Bot. (Rome) 10: 413 (1912).
Pogonarthria menyharthii (Hack.) Hack. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 57: 532 (1912).
Pogonarthria orthoclada Peter Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 40(1 Anh.): 79 (1930).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pogonarthria squarrosa	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Pilg.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Licht.) Pilg.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Licht.) Pilger	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)

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