Taxon: Paspalum notatum Flüggé

See also subordinate taxa:

• Paspalum notatum var. notatum (5 accessions)
• Paspalum notatum var. saurae (9 accessions)

Common names:

• Bahia grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bai xi cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• herbe de Bahia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Bahiagras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• erba di bahia   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• amerika-suzume-no-hie   (Source: Pl Names ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• alpargata   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  
• cañamazo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• cambute   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  
• grama dulce   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pasto horqueta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sacasebo   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (for groundcover fide Trop Grasslands 29:18-27. 1995)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (for lawns fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (for nitrogen binder fide J. Veldkamp, pers. comm.)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:181-2. 1992)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Federal District, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Federal District, Goias, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Bolivia - Beni, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Louisiana, Mississippi
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida [s.e.]

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). 4:181.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Bowman, A. M. et al. 1998. Evaluation of perennial peanuts (Arachis spp.) as forage on the New South Wales north coast. Trop. Grasslands 29:18–27.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• 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.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sandhu, S. et al. 2010. Apomixis and ploidy barrier suppress pollen-mediated gene flow in field grown transgenic turf and forage grass (Paspalum notatum Flüggé). Theor. Appl. Genet. 121:919–929.
• Veldkamp, J. 1996. pers. comm. [re. soil improver].
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:492.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2004. Systematics of Paspalum group Notata (Poaceae-Panicoideae-Paniceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 71:46–51.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum notatum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Paspalum notatum.

Synonyms:

• Paspalum notatum var. latiflorum Döll [= Paspalum notatum var. notatum]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other web resources for Paspalum notatum Flüggé:

• 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
• 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.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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