Taxon:  Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. aurea (Hochst. ex A. Braun) Clayton



Summary
Genus:
Setaria
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:
103552
Place of publication:
Kew Bull. 33:505.  1979
Verified:
03/23/2015 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Nordic Baltic Genebanks. 
Other conspecific taxa
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. (0 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. anceps (Stapf) Veldkamp (0 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. sphacelata (0 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. splendida (Stapf) Clayton (0 active accession[s])
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. var. torta (Stapf) Clayton (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Setaria aurea Hochst. ex A. Braun

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chaetochloa aurea (Hochst. ex A. Braun) Hitchc.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Setaria trinervia Stapf

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Reference(s)
  1. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
  2. Morrone, O. et al. 2014. Revision of the Old World species of Setaria (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 96:1-161.
  3. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaEastern Cape 
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaBurundi  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Guinea
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Eastern Cape]
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.nordic-baltic-genebanks.org/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=103552. Accessed 15 May 2025.