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- Pennisetum_clandestinum abstract "The tropical grass species Pennisetum clandestinum is known by several common names, most often kikuyu grass, as it is native to the region of East Africa that is home to the Gĩkũyũ tribe. Because of its rapid growth and aggressive nature, it is categorised as a noxious weed in some regions. However, it is also a popular garden lawn species in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern California, America because it is inexpensive and drought-tolerant. In addition, it is useful as pasture for livestock grazing and serves as a food source for many avian species, including the long-tailed widowbird. The flowering culms are very short and \"hidden\" amongst the leaves, giving this species its specific epithet (clandestinum).Pennisetum clandestinum is a rhizomatous grass with matted roots and a grass-like or herbaceous habit. The leaves are green, flattened or upwardly folded along the midrib, 10-150 millimetres long, and 1–5 mm wide. The apex of the leaf blade is obtuse. It occurs in sandy soil and reaches a height of between 70 to 150 millimetres. The species favours moist areas and frequently becomes naturalised from introduction as a cultivated alien. Rooted nodes send up bunches of grass blades. It is native to the low-elevation tropics of Kenya and environs, where it grows best in humid heat, such as the wet coastal areas.The description of this species was published by Emilio Chiovenda in 1903, and acknowledges an earlier, invalid, description made by C. F. Hochstetter.It has been introduced across Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, and the Pacific, where it is subject to eradication through management practices. The ease of cultivation, and the thickly matting habit, have made this species desirable for use as a lawn. In southern California in the United States, the grass is commonly used on golf courses since it is drought resistant and creates challenging rough. The famed Riviera Country Club and Torrey Pines Golf Course both use this grass and host tournaments on the PGA Tour. Other minor golf courses in southern California have kikuyu grass, many are in Long Beach: Lakewood, Skylinks, Big recreation, Little recreation, El Dorado, and others.The aggressive colonisation of natural habitat has resulted in this grass becoming naturalised in regions such Southwest Australia. It has high invasive potential due to its elongate rhizomes and stolons, with which it penetrates the ground, rapidly forming dense mats, and suppressing other plant species. It grows from a thick network of rhizomatous roots and sends out stolons which extend along the ground.It can climb over other plant life, shading it out and producing herbicidal toxins that kill competing plants. It prevents new sprouts of other species from growing, may kill small trees and can choke ponds and waterways. It is resistant to mowing and grazing due to its strong network of roots, which easily send up new shoots. It springs up in turfs and lawns, and can damage buildings by growing in the gaps between stones and tiles. The plant is easily introduced to new areas on plowing and digging machinery, which may transfer bits of the rhizome in soil clumps. While the grass spreads well via vegetative reproduction from pieces of rhizome, it is also dispersed via seed. Rhizomes that have reached very hard to reach places will continue to grow as separate plants if they are snapped off during the attempted removal process.".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum binomialAuthority Christian_Ferdinand_Friedrich_Hochstetter.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum class Monocotyledon.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum division Flowering_plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum family Poaceae.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum genus Pennisetum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum kingdom Plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum order Commelinids.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum order Poales.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum thumbnail Starr_020911-0028_Pennisetum_clandestinum.jpg?width=300.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageID "10883144".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageLength "5952".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageOutDegree "41".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageRevisionID "706238963".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Agricultural_pests.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flora_naturalised_in_Australia.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Invasive_plant_species.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lawn_grasses.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lawn_weeds.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pennisetum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Christian_Ferdinand_Friedrich_Hochstetter.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Commelinids.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink East_Africa.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Emilio_Chiovenda.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Flowering_plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Kenya.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Kikuyu_people.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Lawn.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Long-tailed_widowbird.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Long_Beach,_California.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Monocotyledon.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Naturalization.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Noxious_weed.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink PGA_Tour.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Pennisetum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Poaceae.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Poales.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Rhizome.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Riviera_Country_Club.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink South_Africa.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Southern_California.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Southwest_Australia.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Stolon.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink Torrey_Pines_Golf_Course.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kikuyu grass".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kikuyu".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Pennisetum clandestinum".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLinkText "kikuyu grass".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum wikiPageWikiLinkText "kikuyu".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum binomial "Pennisetum clandestinum".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum binomialAuthority "Hochst. ex Chiov.".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum familia Poaceae.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum genus "Pennisetum".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum ordo Poales.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum regnum Plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum species "P. clandestinum".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum unrankedClassis Monocotyledon.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum unrankedDivisio Flowering_plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum unrankedOrdo Commelinids.
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- Pennisetum_clandestinum subject Category:Agricultural_pests.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum subject Category:Flora_naturalised_in_Australia.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum subject Category:Invasive_plant_species.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum subject Category:Lawn_grasses.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum subject Category:Lawn_weeds.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum subject Category:Pennisetum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum hypernym Home.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Building.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Eukaryote.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Plant.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Species.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Pest.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Thing.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Q19088.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum type Q756.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum comment "The tropical grass species Pennisetum clandestinum is known by several common names, most often kikuyu grass, as it is native to the region of East Africa that is home to the Gĩkũyũ tribe. Because of its rapid growth and aggressive nature, it is categorised as a noxious weed in some regions. However, it is also a popular garden lawn species in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern California, America because it is inexpensive and drought-tolerant.".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum label "Pennisetum clandestinum".
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Q2720980.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Kikoejoegras.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs ثيوم_خفي.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Kikuyu-gras.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pana_qachu.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs m.02qszqh.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.
- Pennisetum_clandestinum sameAs Pennisetum_clandestinum.