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Genus: Axonopus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Paniceae.
Nomen number: 6174
Place of publication: Ess. Agrostogr. 12, 154. 1812
Name verified on: 06-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-2003
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
Accessions:
10 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- blanket grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- broadleaf carpet grass (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- carpet grass (Source: BSBI
) – English
- Dorrington grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- lawn grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- Louisiana grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- tropical carpet grass (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- ditan cao (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- Teppichgras (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- assonopo compresso (Source: Mult Glossary Crops
) – Italian
- tsurume-hishiba (Source: F Okin
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- pasto-chato (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- alfombra (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- cañamazo dulce (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
- grama trenza (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- zacate amargo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- Environmental: erosion control (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:53. 1992)
- Environmental: lawn/turf (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:53. 1992)
- Animal food: forage (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:53. 1992)
- Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas [c.], Florida [s.], Georgia [w.-c.], Louisiana [s.], Mississippi [n.e.], South Carolina [s.]
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [e.]
Mexico
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
Brazil: Brazil
Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay
Naturalized: - widely naturalized in paleotropics
Cultivated:
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Malesia: Malaysia
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
4:53.
- Abbiw, D. K.
1990. Useful plants of Ghana.
- Adams, C.
1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
- 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.
- Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll.
1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
- 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.
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1927. Grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24:291-556.
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
- Kamal-Uddin, M. et al.
2009. Floristic composition of weed community in turf grass area of West Peninsular Malaysia.
Int. J. Agric. Biol.
11:13–20.
- León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier).
1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McVaugh, R.
1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Veldkamp, J. F.
1997. pers. comm.
[re. common names].
- Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
- 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:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P. Beauv.:
Images:
- 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.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6174 (24 May 2013)
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