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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Thatch Grass, Wild Sugarcane TRADITIONAL NAMES: Tō Kāka‘o (MG MK), Kāka‘o (AK); Other Polynesian - Fiso (SAM) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Malesia - Solomons - Fiji - ? COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Polynesian, Naturalised; Land, lowlands SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Nationally endangered (seriously)Food (Stem 0+)

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
X	+	-	P	-	+	-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Erianthus maximus Brongn.
SYNONYMS: Miscanthus floridulus X Saccharum officinarum [probably]; Miscanthosaccharum maximum; Erianthus floridulus [mistakenly]

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); LILIOPSIDA (=Monocotyledones); COMMELINIDAE; Cyperales; POACEAE

Vouchers:
Mangaia: field-specimen, very bristly, 199?, drawings+photos, G.McCormack; fieldspecimen+photo, 2006/6, up past pump, in flower, flowers separating but without seeds, G.McCormack. Ma‘uke: field-specimen+photos, showm by Clem, very bristly, NBSAP 2001, same as plant in Mangaia, G.McCormack Aitutaki: field-specimen+photos, on top of Maungapu, without bristles, 199?, G.McCormack a very different part that that of Mangaia and Ma‘uke.

References:
p.1/367 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.304 I Cheeseman - Flora of Rarotonga
p.407b Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

Data Update History (information):
zB02

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