Cynodon plectostachyus

{{Short description|Species of plant in the genus Cynodon}}

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|genus=Cynodon

|species=plectostachyus

|authority=(K.Schum.) Pilg.

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• Cynodon ruspolianus Chiov.
• Leptochloa plectostachya K.Schum.

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Cynodon plectostachyus, the giant star grass, is a species of grass (family Poaceae). It is native to Chad, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and has been introduced as a livestock forage to California and Florida in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Paraguay, Argentina, Nepal, and Bangladesh.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:397115-1 |title=Cynodon plectostachyus (K.Schum.) Pilg. |author= |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=17 June 2021 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.feedipedia.org/node/468 |title=Giant star grass (Cynodon plectostachyus) |last1=Heuzé |first1=V. |last2=Tran |first2=G. |last3=Salgado |first3=P. |last4=Lebas |first4=F. |date=30 June 2015 |website=Feedipedia – Animal Feed Resources Information System |publisher=Feedipedia, a programme by INRAE, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO |access-date=17 June 2021 |quote=naivasha star grass }} An aggressive competitor, it is now the most widespread grass in the New World Tropics. It is typically paired in a silvopastoral system with Leucaena leucocephala.{{cite journal |title=Review: Strategies for enteric methane mitigation in cattle fed tropical forages |year=2020 |last1=Ku-Vera |first1=J.C. |last2=Castelán-Ortega |first2=O.A. |last3=Galindo-Maldonado |first3=F.A. |last4=Arango |first4=J. |last5=Chirinda |first5=N. |last6=Jiménez-Ocampo |first6=R. |last7=Valencia-Salazar |first7=S.S. |last8=Flores-Santiago |first8=E.J. |last9=Montoya-Flores |first9=M.D. |last10=Molina-Botero |first10=I.C. |last11=Piñeiro-Vázquez |first11=A.T. |last12=Arceo-Castillo |first12=J.I. |last13=Aguilar-Pérez |first13=C.F. |last14=Ramírez-Avilés |first14=L. |last15=Solorio-Sánchez |first15=F.J. |journal=Animal |volume=14 |issue=S3 |pages=s453–s463 |doi=10.1017/S1751731120001780 |pmid=32807248 |bibcode=2020Anim...14.s453K |hdl=10568/109084 |s2cid=221164992 |hdl-access=free }}