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
  
• herbe de Bahia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Bahiagras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• 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
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Federal District, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  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

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  United States [s.e.]

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]

• probably native elsewhere in neotropics

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:181.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• 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
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• 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)
• 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)
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2004. Systematics of Paspalum group Notata (Poaceae-Panicoideae-Paniceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 71:46–51.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum notatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Paspalum notatum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

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

Check other databases for Paspalum notatum Flüggé:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: 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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