Melinis minutiflora

TaxID: 173844

Basic Information

Melinis minutiflora

Brazilian stink grass, Honey Grass

Melinis minutiflora, commonly known as molasses grass, is a species of grass. It is a perennial grass native to Africa, where it occurs in disjunct populations (an arc from central Angola to Cameroon in western central africa, the areas around Ruwenzori Mountains and Mount Kenya in eastern Africa. Its seeds are dispersed by wind. Molasses grass usually grows to be thirty to sixty inches tall, and it forms mats when its long, slender stems lay on top of each other in layers up to four feet deep. Molasses grass can spread up other plants, using them as support, like a vine. It has fragrant foliage and colorful inflorescences. It blooms for short periods with differing bloom times depending on where the grass is located. Molasses grass generally flowers in the southern hemisphere between April and June and in the northern hemisphere in November.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Poales

Poaceae

Melinis

minutiflora

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Melinis minutiflora
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(c) Tara Severns@BY
Melinis minutiflora
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(c) François Rousseu@BY-NC
Melinis minutiflora
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(c) Kevin Faccenda@BY
Melinis minutiflora
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(c) François Rousseu@BY-NC
Melinis minutiflora
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(c) Mauricio Mercadante@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Present —

Distribution (73 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Angola Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Burundi Present —
Benin Present —
Burkina Faso Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (7 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
KNPB320-10 - rbcLa 552 South Africa 1981-03-11 -30.30778, 30.71361
GBVR4913-13 - matK 1539 - - -
GBVD4031-11 - rbcL 513 - - -
GBVD4030-11 - matK 795 - - -
GBVD4029-11 - rbcL 546 - - -
GBVD4028-11 - matK 821 - - -
GBVD4027-11 - rbcL 1338 - - -

Literature