Taxon: Paspalum vaginatum Sw.

Common names:

• biscuit grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• saltwater couch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• seashore paspalum   (Source: Grass VarUSA ) – English
  
• silt grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• capim-paturá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• grama-rasteira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• grama de costa   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: potential as lawn/turf   (fide Diversity 16:11-14. 2000)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea - Bioko; Zaire [w.]
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola [w.]; Mozambique
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  China: China - Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam [s.]
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [e.], Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia [s.], Victoria [e.], Western Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia [s.], Louisiana [s.], Mississippi [s.], North Carolina, South Carolina [s.e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas [s.e.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Colima, Jalisco, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines - St. Vincent; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. John
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Alagoas, Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Sergipe
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sardinia, Sicily
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. [= P. distichum L.].
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. [= P. distichum L.].
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
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• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Gould, F. W. & R. Moran. 1981. The grasses of Baja California, Mexico.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
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• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kahn, F. et al. 1993. Las plantas vasculares en las aguas continentales del Peru. IFEA, Lima, Peru.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kenna, M. P. 2000. The United States Golf Association: a leader in the science of turf for 80 years. Diversity 16:11–14.
• Koning, R. de & M. S. M. Sosef. 1985. The Malesian species of Paspalum L. (Gramineae). Blumea 30:309–311.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 2000. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-mer. 1969. Graminees des paturages et des cultures a Madagascar.
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• Proctor, G. R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI.
• Robyns, W. et al., eds. 1948–63. Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
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• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:520–521.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Paspalum gayanum E. Desv.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Paspalum vaginatum Sw.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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