Cenchrus pedicellatus
(Trin.) Morrone · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Cenchrus pedicellatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility8 293 records↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Pennisetum pedicellatum, known simply as desho or as desho grass, is an indigenous grass of Ethiopia of the monocot angiosperm plant family Poaceae. It is also known as annual kyasuwa grass in Nigeria, bare in Mauritania, and deenanath grass in India. It grows in its native geographic location, naturally spreading across the escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands.Smith, G. (2010). Ethiopia: local solutions to a global problem. Retrieved from http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=1784. Widely available in this location, it is ideal for livestock feed and can be sustainably cultivated on small plots of land.Smith, G. (2010). Ethiopia: local solutions to a global problem. Retrieved from http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=1784. Thus desho is becoming increasingly utilized, along with various soil and water conservation techniques, as a local method of improving grazing land management and combating a growing productivity problem of the local region.Danano, D. (2007). Improved grazing land management- Ethiopia. In H. Liniger, & W. Critchley (Eds,), Where the land is greener (pp. 313-316). Bern, Switzerland: WOCAT.IPMS Ethiopia. (2010). Improved productivity & market success of Ethiopian farmers. Retrieved from http://www.ipms-ethiopia.org/content/files/Documents/workshops-Meetings/Agri-business_Development_Process/Report%20on%20IPMS-CIAT%20Agri-business%20Development%20Process.pdf (pp. 1-27).
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction6
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment9
Physiology & chemistry2
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Cenchrus pedicellatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Cenchrus pedicellatus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 365×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 +2
2n 543×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · book-indian_vol2 · CCDB · kew
2n 482×CCDB · book-indian_vol2 · CCDB · book-fedorov
2n 271×CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
n 276×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +1
n 142×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
n 182×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 · CCDB · iapt
n 242×CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 · CCDB · Cave1959
n 251×CCDB · iapt
hexaploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type8 293 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions19 of 43 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Palmerston, AU | 102 |
| Kensington, AU | 47 |
| Saint Louis, US | 24 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 13 |
| Brasília, BR | 12 |
| Cenargenlocation not on record | 11 |
| Universidade Federal do Ceara, Departamento de Biologialocation not on record | 10 |
| Brasília, BR | 10 |
| Université de Bordeauxlocation not on record | 10 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 8 |
| Canberra, AU | 7 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 7 |
| Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Nortelocation not on record | 6 |
| UFBAlocation not on record | 6 |
| Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 6 |
| Fortaleza, BR | 5 |
| UnBlocation not on record | 5 |
| Salvador, BR | 5 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 5 |
| Université National du Béninlocation not on record | 4 |
| Brisbane, AU | 3 |
| Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record | 3 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 3 |
| UNIVILLElocation not on record | 2 |
| Adelaide, AU | 2 |
| St. Augustine, TT | 2 |
| URCAlocation not on record | 2 |
| POZGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Forestry Research Institute of Nigerialocation not on record | 1 |
| Elocation not on record | 1 |
| UTFPR-CPlocation not on record | 1 |
| UNESP-RClocation not on record | 1 |
| BRLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Plocation not on record | 1 |
| Campo Mourão, BR | 1 |
| Universidade Federal de Goiáslocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |