Taxon: Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth

• the 13 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• beach dropseed   (Source: Blumea 35:448. 1991) – English
  
• jatopa   (Source: Blumea 35:448. 1991) – English
  
• marine couch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sand couch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• seashore dropseed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• water couch   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Blumea 35:448. 1991)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Blumea 35:448. 1991)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Senegal; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal [n.e.]
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.?], Florida, Georgia [s.e.], Louisiana [s.], Mississippi [s.], North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Jalisco, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Chile

References:

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• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Baaijens, G. J. & J. F. Veldkamp. 1991. Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia. Blumea 35:445.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
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• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
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• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
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• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
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• Simon, B. K. & S. W. L. Jacobs. 1999. Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 12:409–411.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. 1991. Flora of Kerala - grasses.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sporobolus virginicus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sporobolus virginicus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sporobolus virginicus.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Agrostis virginica L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth:

• 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
• 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
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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