Jepson Flora Project: Jepson Interchange for California Floristics    
Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.
POACEAE
Initial Editorial Analysis 15 Aug 2011
Notes on Authorship of Name = Authors of Plant Names [see Editorial Comments 1]
Notes on Publication of Name [from International Plant Names Index-APNI] Beskrivelse af Guieiske Planter [som are fundue af Danske Botanikere, isaer afetatsraad Thonning (1827) 44. [Correctly, "Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter som ere fundne af Danske Botanikere, isaer af etatsraad Thonning (1827) 44", see Editorial Comments 1]
Source of Report for California Smith, J.P. 1995. A Checklist of California Grasses. Unpublished manuscript, Arcata, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
Initial Editorial Comments indicated only for CA, TX in Kartesz & Meacham; in no way mentioned in Munz, Munz Supplement, The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 6 Oct 2003 e-mail from Jeff Greenhouse see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates that The International Plant Names Index-APNI title cited under Notes on Publication of Name should read "Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter som ere fundne af Danske Botanikere, isaer af etatsraad Thonning (1827) 44", and that the author (F.C. Schumacher on the title page) is actually Christian Friedrich Schumacher (Schumach. in Authors of Plant Names) according to TL-2, so that the correct author citation is Pennisetum purpureum Schumach., as indicated in Kartesz & Meacham]
Correspondence 2 Treatment and author notes submitted for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] see Comment 2
Editorial Comments 2 Correspondence 2 indicates, in a note under the genus, that Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. is included among a list of taxa that "have been collected in CA" but have not "become naturalized". [Unfortunately, the treatment does not indicate more precisely the status of Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. relative to the flora of California (e.g., is it a waif, or does it not occur presently in California at all?). As an active waif, the taxon would have been included in the key to members of the genus, with a description only online; the fact that the taxon was not treated this way suggests it might have been considered to be an historical waif. ]
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary rejection, not naturalized in CA, a waif
Current Status JFP-3, accepted name for taxon occurring in CA only as a waif and/or garden escape, not naturalized
Current Status Authority The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2]
Current Status Date 15 Aug 2011
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Pennisetum
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Pennisetum

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