Taxon: Paspalum scrobiculatum L.
Genus: Paspalum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 26917
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 1:29. 1767
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Apr-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Oct-2001
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9). Accessions:
336 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- 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:
- bastard millet (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English [Paspalum scrobiculatum var. scrobiculatum]
- creeping paspalum (Source: Grass SAfr
) – English
- ditch millet (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- Indian paspalum (Source: Weed CIBA
) – English
- koda grass (Source: Pl Res SEAs
4:185) – English [Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
- kodo millet (Source: Pl Res SEAs
4:185.) – English [Paspalum scrobiculatum var. scrobiculatum]
- kodo millet (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- kodra millet (Source: Pl Res SEAs
4:185.) – English [Paspalum scrobiculatum var. scrobiculatum]
- scrobic (Source: Pl Res SEAs
4:185) – English [Paspalum scrobiculatum var. bispicatum]
- water couch (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- Kodohirse (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- kodo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – India (Hindi)
- kodra (Source: Dict Rehm
) – India (Hindi)
- mijo koda (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
- More:
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
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
United States [s.e.] - throughout paleotropics
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
4:185.
- 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)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- 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)
- 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:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Paspalum scrobiculatum L.:
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
- 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:
- 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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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 (09 February 2010)
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