      
Taxon: Paspalum distichum L.
Genus: Paspalum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 26845
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:855. 1759
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Dec-2007
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions:
14 in National Plant Germplasm System.
- capim-arame (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- couch paspalum (Source: Weed CIBA
)
- eternity grass (Source: Food Feed Crops US
)
- ginger grass (Source: Pl Res SEAs
)
- grama colorada (Source: Dict Rehm
)
- grama-braba (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- grama-da-praia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- grama-de-Joanópolis (Source: Dict Rehm
)
- grama-doce (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- grama-rasteira-da-praia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
- gramilla blanca (Source: Dict Rehm
)
- joint grass (Source: Websters Dict
)
- knotgrass (Source: World Econ Pl
)
- seaside millet (Source: Websters Dict
)
- Thompson grass (Source: F NAmer
)
- water couch (Source: Weed CIBA
)
- water finger-grass (Source: BSBI
)
- More:
- More:
- naturalized in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Macaronesia, Mascarenes, Madagascar, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, & outside native range in United States & South America, probable origin neotropics
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
- Brummitt, R. K.
1983. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 25.
Taxon
32:281. [proposal to reject P. distichum L. not recommended, lectotypification also fixed].
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Catasús Guerra, L. J.
Cavanillesia Altera
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
[rejects as nom. confus., accepting P. paspalodes (Michx.) Scribn.].
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al.
1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Koning, R. de & M. S. M. Sosef.
1985. The Malesian species of Paspalum L. (Gramineae).
Blumea
30:295–297.
- Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
4:180.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
[rejects as nom. confus., accepting P. paspalodes (Michx.) Scribn.].
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Renvoize, S. A. & W. D. Clayton.
1980. (528) Proposal to reject the name Paspalum distichum L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10,2:855 (1759).
Taxon
29:339–340.
- Sell, P. & G. Murrell.
1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
- Tovar, Ó.
1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú.
Ruizia
13:360–361.
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds.
1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 (L Argent)
- Zuloaga, F. O. et al.
1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
- Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Paspalum distichum L.:
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- 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
- 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:
- More:
- 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.
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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?26845 (22 November 2009)
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