Taxon: Paspalum dilatatum Poir.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Paspalum dilatatum subsp. dilatatum (1 accessions)
• Paspalum dilatatum subsp. flavescens (1 accessions)

Common names:

• caterpillar grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• dallis grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• water grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• mao hua que bai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• herbe de Dallis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• millet bâtard   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Dallisgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• paspalo dilatato   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• shima-suzume-no-hie   (Source: Grass Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• grama de agua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pasto dallis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass SAfr; Pl Res SEAs 4:178. 1992; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al., including ‘Paraguay’)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Paspalum dilatatum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Zambia
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Jalisco, Mexico, Veracruz
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Johnston Atoll; United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Solomon Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:178.
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. [cultivated].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Koning, R. de & M. S. M. Sosef. 1985. The Malesian species of Paspalum L. (Gramineae). Blumea 30:293–294.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16.
• 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.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• 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.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. [with two subsp.].
• Zuloaga, F. O. 1974. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 16:62.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum dilatatum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Paspalum dilatatum.

Check other web resources for Paspalum dilatatum Poir.:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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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