Taxon: Zoysia japonica Steud.

Common names:

• Japanese lawn grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Korean grass   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Korean lawn grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• zoysia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• jie lü cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• zoisia del Giappone   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• shiba   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• jandi   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Dict Gard; Grass VarUSA)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China - Hebei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kharkevich, S. S., ed. 1985. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Xie, Y. et al. 2012. Genetic diversity in Chinese natural zoysiagrass based on inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis. African J. Biotech. 11:7659–7669.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Zoysia japonica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Zoysia japonica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Zoysia japonica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Osterdamia japonica (Steud.) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 26 accessions)

Check other web resources for Zoysia japonica Steud.:

• 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 of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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