Taxon: Paspalum plicatulum Michx.

Common names:

• brown-seed paspalum   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• coqueirinho   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• gamelotillo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• hierba de cepa   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pasto-negro   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• top paspalum   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:183. 1992)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi [s.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Tabasco; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:386.
• 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)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• 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)
• Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:183.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16. (Grass Util Mex)
• 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)
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:376.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• 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) [with three var.].
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:500.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum plicatulum.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Paspalum plicatulum var. glabrum Arechav.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Paspalum plicatulum var. villosissimum Pilg.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Paspalum plicatulum Michx.:

• 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:

• Fruit and 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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