Taxon: Axonopus fissifolius (Raddi) Kuhlm.

• the 2 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• caratao grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• carpet grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• common carpet grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• lei ditan cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Teppichrasengras   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. affinis]) – German
  
• assonopo   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• grama-missioneira   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. affinis]) – Portuguese
  
• gramalote   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. affinis]) – Spanish
  
• zacate amargo   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. affinis]) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma [s.e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Mexico [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Grenada
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

• naturalized in paleotropics

• also cultivated

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Renvoize, S. A. 1984. The grasses of Bahia.
• Renvoize, S. A. 1988. Hatschbach's Parana grasses.
• Renvoize, S. A. 1998. Gramineas de Bolivia.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Axonopus fissifolius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Axonopus fissifolius.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Axonopus fissifolius.

Synonyms:

• (=) Axonopus affinis Chase
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Paspalum fissifolium Raddi (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Axonopus fissifolius (Raddi) Kuhlm.:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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