Characteristics
Monocots
                    Heteropogon contortus (L.)P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.  
                TANGLEHEAD
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                                    Not Native
                                    UPL (NWPL)
                    
                
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                    Classification
Citation
HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois ex Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg.  2: 836.  1817.
                Andropogon contortus Linnaeus 1753.
                INDIA: Without data (lectotype: Plukenet, Phytographia  t. 191(5).  1692).  Lectotypified by Cope, in Nasir & Ali, Fl. Pakistan  143: 312.  1982.
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