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| image = Bothriochloa bladhii.jpg
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
| unranked_classis = [[Monocots]]
| unranked_ordo = [[Commelinids]]
| ordo = [[Poales]]
| familia = [[Poaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Bothriochloa]]''
| species = '''''B. bladhii'''''
| binomial = ''Bothriochloa bladhii''
| binomial_authority = ([[Anders Johan Retzius|Retz.]]) [[Stanley Thatcher Blake|S.T.Blake]] <ref name=trop1>&nbsp;Under it treatment as ''Bothriochloa bladhii'' (from its basionym ''Andropogon bladhii''), this plant name was first published in ''Proceedings of the [[Royal Society of Queensland]]'' 80(6): 62–64. 1969. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/25511659 |quote=Basionym: ''Andropogon bladhii'' Retz.|title=Name - ''Bothriochloa bladhii'' (Retz.) S.T.Blake |work=Tropicos |publisher=[[Missouri Botanical Garden]] |location=[[Saint Louis, Missouri]] |accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref>
| synonyms = 
* ''Amphilophis intermedia'' var. ''acidula'' <small>([[Otto Stapf|Stapf]]) Stapf</small>
* ''Andropogon bladhii'' <small>Retz.</small> ([[basionym]])
* ''A.&nbsp;caucasicus'' <small>[[Carl Bernhard von Trinius|Trin.]]</small>
* ''A.&nbsp;glaber'' <small>[[William Roxburgh|Roxb.]]</small>
* ''A.&nbsp;intermedius'' <small>[[Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)|R.Br.]]</small>
* ''A.&nbsp;intermedius'' var. ''caucasicus'' <small>(Trin.) [[Eduard Hackel|Hack.]]</small>
* ''A.&nbsp;pertusus'' var. ''vegetior'' <small>Hack.</small>
* ''Bothriochloa caucasica'' <small>(Trin.) [[Charles Edward Hubbard|C.E.Hubb.]]</small>
* ''B.&nbsp;glabra'' <small>(Roxb.) [[Aimée Antoinette Camus|A.Camus]]</small>
* ''B.&nbsp;insculpta'' var. ''vegetior'' <small>(Hack.) C.E.Hubb.</small>
* ''B.&nbsp;intermedia'' <small>(R.Br.) A.Camus</small>
* ''B.&nbsp;intermedia'' var. ''punctata'' <small>(Roxb.) [[Yi-Li Keng|Keng]]</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=grin>{{ cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?103434 |title=''Bothriochloa bladhii'' information from NPGS/GRIN |author=[[Germplasm Resources Information Network|GRIN]] |work=Taxonomy for Plants |publisher=[[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]], [[Agricultural Research Service|ARS]], National Genetic Resources Program |location=National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, [[Beltsville, Maryland]] |date=May 28, 2003 |accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref><ref name=trop2>&nbsp;''Andropogon bladhii'' (the basionym of ''B.&nbsp;bladhii'') was originally described and published in ''Observationes Botanicae'' 2: 27. 1781. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/25518415 |title=Name - ''Andropogon bladhii'' Retz. |quote=Type-Protologue: Collector: Bladh; Distribution: China |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref>
}}
'''''Bothriochloa bladhii''''' (commonly called, variously, '''Australian bluestem''', '''Caucasian bluestem''', '''forest-bluegrass''', '''plains bluestem''', and '''purple plume grass''')<ref name=grin/> is a [[neotropic ecozone|neotropic]] grass in the [[Poaceae]] family, found primarily in tropical [[Africa]], and tropical and temperate [[Asia]], and [[Australia]]. The [[type (biology)|type specimen]] was collected from China by Finnish botanist [[Peter Johan Bladh]].<ref name=trop2/><ref name=huh>{{ cite web |url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=1502 |title=Entry for Peter Johan Bladh |work=Index of Botanists |publisher=Harvard University Herbarium |date=May 21, 2009 |accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref> The name of Bladh is honored in the [[specific name (botany)|specific epithet]].

==Distribution==
''Bothriochloa bladhii'' is native to northeast, west, west-central, and south tropical, and southern '''Africa''' (in [[Angola]]; [[Botswana]]; [[Burkina Faso]]; [[Cameroon]]; the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]; [[Ethiopia]]; [[Ghana]]; [[Kenya]]; [[Malawi]]; [[Mozambique]]; [[Namibia]]; [[Nigeria]]; [[Senegal]]; the [[provinces of South Africa|provinces]] of [[Eastern Cape]], [[Gauteng]], [[KwaZulu-Natal]], [[Limpopo]], [[Mpumalanga]], [[North West (South African province)|North West]], and [[Northern Cape]] of [[South Africa]]; [[Swaziland]]; [[Tanzania]] (including the [[Zanzibar Archipelago]]); [[Uganda]]; [[Zambia]]; and [[Zimbabwe]]); much of temperate and tropical, southern and eastern '''Asia''', eastern '''Eurasia''', '''Malesia''', and the '''Middle East''' (in [[Afghanistan]]; [[Armenia]]; [[Azerbaijan]]; [[Bhutan]]; [[Burma]]; [[Cambodia]]; the [[province of China|province]]s of [[Anhui]], [[Fujian]], [[Guangdong]], [[Guangxi]], [[Guizhou]], [[Hubei]], [[Hunan]], [[Shaanxi]], [[Sichuan]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Yunnan]] of [[China]]; [[India]]; [[Iran]]; [[Japan]] (including the [[Ryukyu Islands]]); southern [[Kazakhstan]]; [[Kyrgyzstan]]; [[Laos]]; [[Malaysia]]; [[Nepal]]; [[Pakistan]]; [[Papua New Guinea]]; [[Ciscaucasus|Ciscaucasian]] [[Russia]]; [[Sri Lanka]]; [[Taiwan]]; [[Thailand]]; and [[Vietnam]]); and the [[states and territories of Australia|state]]s of [[New South Wales]], [[Northern Territory]], [[Queensland]], [[South Australia]], [[Western Australia]] of Australia.<ref name=grin/>

''B.&nbsp;bladhii'' has also become [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalized]] elsewhere in the neotropics.<ref name=grin/>

==Uses==
''Bothriochloa bladhii'' is used as [[fodder|stored food]] for local [[livestock]], and as a [[grazing]] plant by both livestock and wild [[ruminant]]s.<ref name=grin/> It is sometimes planted as a [[revegetation|revegetator]], to restore [[disturbance (ecology)|disturbed]] land.<ref name=grin/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp01357.htm GrassBase page for ''Bothriochloa bladhii'']
*[http://www.hear.org/pier/imagepages/singles/vchr_bish_593618.htm Picture of ''Bothriochloa bladhii''] from the [[Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project]] (HEAR) website, courtesy of the [[Bishop Museum]], Herbarium Pacificum

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