EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: CHRGA
• Preferred name: Chloris gayana
• Authority: Kunth

Western Asia, tropical Africa.  A forage grass now naturalized throughout most of the tropics and subtropics. Introduced in southern Mediterranean, Canary Islands, Himalayas, India to Indochina, Sri Lanka, Malesia, China, Madagascar, USA, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America (except northern Brazil and southern cone), New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand 

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