Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton is a plant in the Poaceae family, order Poales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton

Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton

Sporobolus fertilis is a grass species native to Asia that is invasive in Australia, first formally described in 1854.

Family
Genus
Sporobolus
Order
Poales
Class
Liliopsida

About Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton

Sporobolus fertilis, commonly called Bloomsbury grass, is a grass species. It is native to the Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, China, Japan, and Malaysia. It is an invasive species in Australia, where it is called giant parramatta grass. This plant was first published in scientific literature under the name Agrostis fertilis in 1854, in Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel’s Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum. Steudel was a German botanist.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Poales Poaceae Sporobolus

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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