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Taxon: Paspalum conjugatum P. J. Bergius

Genus: Paspalum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 26835
Place of publication: Acta Helv. Phys.-Math. 7:129, t. 8. 1772
Name verified on: 27-Feb-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2009
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 5 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • buffalo grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  • carabao grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  • sour grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • sour paspalum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • herbe sure   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • capim-azedo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • capim-de-marreca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • capim-gordo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • capim-tê   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • grama-azeda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • grama-comum   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • cañamazo amargo   (Source: Grass Cuba II ) – Spanish
  • cambute   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • pasto amargo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • probably pantropical

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • naturalized in tropical & n. Africa, tropical Asia, Australia, Mascarenes, Seychelles, Micronesia, Galapagos, Melanesia, Polynesia, & Hawaii

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Check other databases for Paspalum conjugatum P. J. Bergius:

  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?26835 (09 February 2010)

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