Taxon: Paspalum conjugatum P. J. Bergius

Common names:

• buffalo grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• carabao grass   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• Hilo grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Johnston grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sour grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sour paspalum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• water grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• yellow grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• herbe créole   (Source: Invasive Spec Comp ) – French
  
• 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
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Ecocrop)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:177. 1992; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Congo
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador - Galapagos Islands; Peru

• origin obscure

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. P. 4:177 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Development Consortium. Invasive species compendium (on-line resource).
• Koning, R. de & M. S. M. Sosef. 1985. The Malesian species of Paspalum L. (Gramineae). Blumea 30:290–293.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum conjugatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Paspalum conjugatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Paspalum conjugatum.

Check other web resources for Paspalum conjugatum P. J. Bergius:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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