Taxon: Paspalum scrobiculatum L.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum (2 accessions)
• Paspalum scrobiculatum var. scrobiculatum (no accessions)

Common names:

• creeping paspalum   (Source: Grass SAfr )
  
• ditch millet   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Indian paspalum   (Source: Weed CIBA )
  
• kodo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kodo millet   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Kodohirse   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kodra   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• mijo koda   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• water couch   (Source: Websters Dict )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: cereal   (fide Wealth India RM 7:270-272. 1966)
  
• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:185. 1992; Wealth India RM 7:270-272. 1966)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Grass SAfr; Pl Res SEAs 4:185. 1992)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Paspalum scrobiculatum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

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

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Other:

• throughout paleotropics & s.e. United States

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• 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)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:185.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• 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)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum scrobiculatum.

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

Synonyms:

• Paspalum cartilagineum J. Presl [= Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Paspalum commersonii Lam. [= Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)
• (=) Paspalum orbiculare G. Forst.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Paspalum polystachyum R. Br. [= Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Paspalum scrobiculatum var. commersonii (Lam.) Stapf [= Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Paspalum scrobiculatum var. polystachyum (R. Br.) Stapf [= Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
  

Check other databases for Paspalum scrobiculatum L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruit and seed: 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?26917 (21 November 2009)

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