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| Country or region name | Taiwan, R.O.C. |
| Organism group | plant |
| Order name | Graminales |
| Family name | Gramineae |
| Species name | Pennisetum purpureum |
| English common name | napier grass, elephant grass |
| Substantially same species (synonym) | |
| Year of invasion or detection | 1957 |
| Native region | Tropical Africa |
| Situation of establishment | Category 2: Settled after 1951 |
| Taxonomic description | |
| Expansion of distribution area | |
| Island-wide, serious in central and south Taiwan, distributed in riparian, disturbed forests, roadsides and wastefields. | |
| Environmental impact | |
| Economic damage | |
| Reproduction | |
| Perennial grass, up to 5 m in height, grow well after cuttiong/firing, flowers and produces seeds in winter, propagules dispersed by wind and water. | |
| Growth | |
| Countermeasure | |
| Writer's name and affiliation | |
| Mitsuo Horita, NIAES | |
| 1 | Author | Chiang, M.Y. |
| Year | 2006 | |
| Title | Naturalized alien plants in Taiwan: information based on publications. | |
| Magazine | Proceedings of International Workshop on Development of Database (APASD) for Biological Invasion, Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute, Taichung, Taiwan. | |
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| Page | 12-1-22 | |
| Summary | ||
| Key Word | alien plants, Taiwan | |
| 2 | Author | Chiang, M.Y., Hsu, L.M., Yuan, C.I. and Chiang, Y.J. |
| Year | 2003 | |
| Title | Naturalization and ecology of the alien plants in Taiwan. | |
| Magazine | Proceedings of 2003 Pland Biodiversity Meeting on Conservation, Green Ecological Engineering and Sustainable Utilization, Lai, M.J. (ed.), Tunghai University, Taiwan. | |
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| Number | ||
| Page | 47-65 | |
| Summary | ||
| Key Word | alien plants, Taiwan | |
| No. | Habitat |
| 1 | grove/woodland |
| 2 | pond/lake/river/riparian |
| 3 | roadside |
| 4 | weedy field/margin of field |
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