Taxon: Paspalum urvillei Steud.

Common names:

• herbe de Vasey   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• hierba de Vasey   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Vasey grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere, including United States

References:

• 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)
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. (Grass SAfr)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Koning, R. de & M. S. M. Sosef. 1985. The Malesian species of Paspalum L. (Gramineae). Blumea 30:308–309.
• 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)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Paspalum urvillei.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Paspalum griseum Hack. ex M. P. Corrêa, nom. nud.
  
• (=) Paspalum larranagae Arechav.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other databases for Paspalum urvillei Steud.:

• 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

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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