Taxon: Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Tripsacum dactyloides var. dactyloides (no accessions)
• Tripsacum dactyloides var. hispidum (1 accessions)
• Tripsacum dactyloides var. meridonale (84 accessions)
• Tripsacum dactyloides var. mexicanum (no accessions)

Common names:

• eastern gama grass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• gama grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• herbe grama   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Gamagras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• capim-gigante   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• macillo   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – Spanish
  
• pasto Guatemala   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zacate maicero   (Source: Grass Util Mex ) – Spanish
  
• gamagräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Proc E Nat Grass Sym)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (for xeriscape landscaping fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001; Proc E Nat Grass Sym)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Proc E Nat Grass Sym; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: wildlife habitat   (fide Proc E Nat Grass Sym; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US; NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of maize   (based on the knowledge of Tripsacum genetics fide Maydica 52. 2007; Corn 24. 2004, for diploid, 2n=36, tetraploid, 2n=72, and also 2n=54)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [s.], Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska [s.e.], Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Federal District, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Hispaniola [possibly]
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Blakey, C. A. et al. 2007. Tripsacum genetics: from observations along a river to molecular genomics. Maydica 52:81–99.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Bomblies, K. & J. F. Doebley. 2005. Molecular evolution of FLORICAULA/LEAFY orthologs in the Andropogoneae (Poaceae). Molec. Biol. Evol. 22:1082–1094.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• 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.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Herrera-Arrieta, Y. 2001. Las Gramíneus de Durango.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16. 261.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Schnabel, R. R. 1999. Improving water quality using native grasses. In: Ritchie, J. C. et al., eds., Proceedings of the Second Eastern Native Grass Symposium, November 17-19, 1999. Baltimore, Maryland. 46–54.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Wilkes, G. 2004. Corn, strange and marvelous: but is a definitive origin known? In: Smith, C. W. et al., eds., Corn: origin, history, technology, and production. 3–63.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:624.
• de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1981. Systematics of South American Tripsacum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 68:272.
• de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1982. Systematics of Tripsacum dactyloides (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 69:1251–57.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Synonyms:

• Coix dactyloides L. [≡ Tripsacum dactyloides var. dactyloides]
  
• Tripsacum dactyloides subsp. hispidum Hitchc. [≡ Tripsacum dactyloides var. hispidum]
  
• Tripsacum dactyloides var. occidentale H. C. Cutler & E. S. Anderson [= Tripsacum dactyloides var. dactyloides]
  

Check other web resources for Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.:

• 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
• 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:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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