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Mary grass (Setaria barbata)

Dlium Mary grass (Setaria barbata)

Mary grass (Setaria barbata) is a herbaceous species in the Poaceae, perennial grass, ribbon leaves, leathery with linear folds, green, hairy, grows wild in the shade, widely cultivated as an ornamental plant, some cultivars have striped leaves and purple midrib.

S. barbata has stems that grow from an elaborate rhizome, 1 cm thick and hairy. Leaves sparse to completely hairy, linear blades, oval or lance-shaped. Sharp tip, a vein in the middle, pleated texture and coarse or hairless hair.





The grains in panicles, yellowish green, open and spreading. The spikelets are several millimeters long and are often accompanied by hairs. The grass is vigorous and spreads through rhizomes and seeds, forming monotypic stands.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Cenchrinae
Genus: Setaria P.Beauv. in Ess. Agrostogr.: 51 (1812)
Species: Setaria barbata (Lam.) Kunth in Révis. Gramin. 1: 47 (1829)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Chaetochloa barbata (Lam.) Hitchc. & Chase in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 348 (1917)
Panicum barbatum Lam. in Tabl. Encycl. 1: 171 (1791)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Chaetochloa costata (Roxb.) Skeels in Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 282: 15 (1913)
Chamaeraphis rhachitricha (Hochst.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 347 (1898)
Chamaeraphis setosa var. elongata Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 769 (1891)
Chamaeraphis viatica (Salzm. ex Döll) Kuntze (1891)
Panicum basisetum Steud. in Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 52 (1853)
Panicum bongaense Pilg. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 44 (1902)
Panicum costatum Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 1: 314 (1832)
Panicum lineatum Schumach. in Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 61 (1827)
Panicum mauritianum Willd. ex Spreng. in Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 305 (1824)
Panicum nakaianum Honda in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 22 (1923)
Panicum plicatum var. costatum (Roxb.) Baker in Fl. Mauritius: 436 (1877)
Panicum rarisetum Steud. (1853)
Panicum rhachitrichum Hochst. in Flora 27: 254 (1844)
Panicum thollonii Franch. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 351 (1895)
Panicum viaticum Salzm. ex Döll in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 2(2): 155 (1877)
Setaria barbata var. meiantha A.Chev. in Sudania 1: 32 (1911)
Setaria basiseta (Steud.) T.Durand & Schinz in Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 772 (1894)
Setaria bongaensis (Pilg.) Mez in G.W.J.Mildbraed (ed.), Wiss. Ergebn. Zweit. Deut. Zentr.-Afr. Exped., Bot. 2: 20 (1922)
Setaria costata Vanderyst in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 10: 250 (1919)
Setaria flaccifolia Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 850 (1930)
Setaria gracilipes C.E.Hubb. in Kew Bull. 4: 362 (1949)
Setaria kwamouthensis Vanderyst in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 16: 682 (1925)
Setaria mauritiana Spreng. (1824)
Setaria nakaiana (Honda) Ohwi in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 4: 32 (1935)
Setaria rhachitricha (Hochst.) Rendle in W.P.Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. 2: 188 (1899)
Setaria thollonii (Franch.) Stapf in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1927: 267 (1927)
Setaria viscidula Desv. in Mém. Soc. Agric. Angers 1: 184 (1831)
Urochloa mauritiana (Spreng.) Bojer in Hortus Maurit.: 363 (1837)

PUBLICATIONS

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VERNACULAR NAME

English: Mary grass, East Indian bristlegrass, Bristly foxtail grass, Corn grass, Mary grass
French: Sétaire barbue, Trainasse
Indonesian: Rumput Jagung, Jamarak
Japanese: シマササキビ
Java: Jamarak

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