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Axonopus brevipedunculatus Gledhill:
Sierra Leone (Africa & Madagascar)

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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002

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Paspalum compressum P. Beauv. ex C.P. Cowan:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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Cowan, C. P. 1983. Flora de Tabasco. Listados Floríst. México 1: 1–123. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/511

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Paspalum furcatum var. fissum Döll:
Brazil (South America)

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Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone. 2003. Paspalum. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46: 443–527. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1004218

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Axonopus multipes Swallen:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
Beetle, A. A. 1983. Gram. México 1: 1–260. Secretaria de Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulícos: COTECOCA, México. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/26010
Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocot. Mexic. Sinopsis Floríst. 10: 7–236 [and index]. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1015183
Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37(4): 317–407. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/2538
Black, G. A. 1963. Grasses of the genus Axonopus (a taxonomic treatment). Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 1–186. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/10577

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Axonopus compressus var. macropodius (Steud.) G.A. Black:
Bolivia (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Ecuador (South America)
Peru (South America)

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Black, G. A. 1963. Grasses of the genus Axonopus (a taxonomic treatment). Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 1–186. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/10577

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Axonopus compressus var. australis G.A. Black:
Argentina (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
Uruguay (South America)

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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
Black, G. A. 1963. Grasses of the genus Axonopus (a taxonomic treatment). Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 1–186. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/10577

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Paspalum furcatum var. parviflorum Döll:
Brazil (South America)

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Döll, J. C. 1877. Gramineae I. Paniceae. 2(2B): 34–342, t. 12–49. In C. F. P. von Martius Fl. Bras. F. Fleischer, Monachii et Lipsiae. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/25886

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Paspalum compressum Raf.:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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Pérez, A., M. Sousa Sánchez, A. M. Hanan-Alipi, F. Chiang Cabrera & P. Tenorio L. 2005. Vegetación terrestre. 65–110. In Biodivers. Tabasco. CONABIO-UNAM, México. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1030034

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Axonopus compressus var. compressus :
Peru (South America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Sri Lanka (Asia)
Suriname (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
French Guiana (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Australia (Oceania)
South Africa (Africa & Madagascar)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Philippines (Asia)
Mauritania (Africa & Madagascar)
Madagascar (Africa & Madagascar)
Sierra Leone (Africa & Madagascar)
Liberia (Africa & Madagascar)
India (Asia)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Guyana (South America)
Ghana (Africa & Madagascar)
Ecuador (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Colombia (South America)
Cameroon (Africa & Madagascar)
Congo (Brazzaville) (Africa & Madagascar)
Brazil (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Tanzania (Africa & Madagascar)
Uruguay (South America)
Malaysia (Asia)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Venezuela (South America)

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McVaugh, R. 1983. Gramineae. 14: 1–436. In R. McVaugh Fl. Novo-Galiciana. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9853
Longhi-Wagner, H. M. & I. I. Boldrini. 1988. Gramíneas da Estação Ecologica de Aracuri, Esmeralda, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Iheringia, Bot. 38: 21–42. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/27392
Black, G. A. 1963. Grasses of the genus Axonopus (a taxonomic treatment). Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 1–186. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/10577
Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: i–xl, 1–1286. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/7728

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Paspalum furcatum var. filiforme (L.) Döll:
Brazil (South America)
French Guiana (South America)
Suriname (South America)

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Döll, J. C. 1877. Gramineae I. Paniceae. 2(2B): 34–342, t. 12–49. In C. F. P. von Martius Fl. Bras. F. Fleischer, Monachii et Lipsiae. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/25886

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Paspalum platycaulon var. parviflorum Döll:
French Guiana (South America)

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Döll, J. C. 1877. Gramineae I. Paniceae. 2(2B): 34–342, t. 12–49. In C. F. P. von Martius Fl. Bras. F. Fleischer, Monachii et Lipsiae. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/25886

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Paspalum platycaulon Poir.:
Brazil (South America)
French Guiana (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
Uruguay (South America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)

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Döll, J. C. 1877. Gramineae I. Paniceae. 2(2B): 34–342, t. 12–49. In C. F. P. von Martius Fl. Bras. F. Fleischer, Monachii et Lipsiae. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/25886

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Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P. Beauv.:
Argentina (South America)
Australia (Oceania)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Burma (Asia)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Bangladesh (Asia)
Bhutan (Asia)
Chile (South America)
Cameroon (Africa & Madagascar)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
French Guiana (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Peru (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Tanzania (Africa & Madagascar)
Uganda (Africa & Madagascar)
Suriname (South America)
Uruguay (South America)
Guyana (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
Venezuela (South America)
Guinea (Africa & Madagascar)
Liberia (Africa & Madagascar)
Madagascar (Africa & Madagascar)
Sri Lanka (Asia)
Philippines (Asia)
India (Asia)
Indonesia (Asia)
Japan (Asia)
Malaysia (Asia)
Sierra Leone (Africa & Madagascar)
Solomon Isl (Oceania)
Micronesia Federated States (Oceania)
New Caledonia (Oceania)
Papua New Guinea (Asia)
Tonga (Oceania)
China (Asia)
Samoa (Oceania)

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Axonopus affinis Chase:
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Philippines (Asia)
Malaysia (Asia)
Paraguay (South America)
Suriname (South America)
Uruguay (South America)
United States (North America)
Venezuela (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Colombia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Burma (Asia)
Australia (Oceania)
Argentina (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
South Africa (Africa & Madagascar)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

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Pohl, R. W. 1980. Family 15. Gramineae. In: W. C. Burger, (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Bot., n.s. 4: 1–608. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/5421
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Longhi-Wagner, H. M., V. Bittich, M. d. L. Wanderley & G. J. Shepherd. 2001. Poaceae. Fl. Fanerogam. Estado Sao Paulo 1: i–xxv, 1–292. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1018627
Rosengurtt, B., B. R. A. Maffei & P. I. Artucio. 1970. Gram. Urug. [i–vii], 1–489. Universidad de la República, Montevideo. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/19689
Swallen, J. R. 1955. Gramineae. In: P. C. Standley & J. A. Steyermark (eds.), Flora of Guatemala---Part II. Fieldiana, Bot. 24(2): i–ix, 1–390. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/6706
Cabrera, A. L. 1970. Gramíneas. 4(2): 1–624. In A. L. Cabrera Fl. Prov. Buenos Aires. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/20503
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Black, G. A. 1963. Grasses of the genus Axonopus (a taxonomic treatment). Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 1–186. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/10577
Okada, K. A. 1969. Axonopus in A. Burkart, Fl. Il. Entre Rios. 2: 411–418. In A. Burkart Fl. Il. Entre Ríos. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/19874
D'Arcy, W. G. 1987. Flora of Panama. Checklist and Index. Part 1: The introduction and checklist. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 17: v–xxx, 1–328. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1289

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Native to tropical America. Introduced and naturalized in many warm countries. Taiwan, moist and shady areas.

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Worldwide distribution

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Native of tropical America; widely introduced in other tropical countries

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National Distribution

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United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

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S. United States, Mexico to Brazil. Introduced into many warm countries.

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Native to tropical America. Naturalized in Tatunshan, northern Taiwan, forming wide meadows.

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Perennials; stolons long creeping. Leaf blade thin, 5-20 cm long, 8-10 cm wide, broad and with a rounded apex; ligule short, ca. 0.5 mm long; sheath loose, basal ones imbricate. Racemes 2-5, digitately arranged, 5-10 cm long; rachis triangular, spikelets in 2-rows along one-side. Spilelets sparingly soft hairy, 2-3 mm long, compressed, oblong, obtuse; lower glume wanting; upper glume and lower lemma same shape, lower palea absent; upper floret hard, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, margins slightly inrolled, ca. 2 mm long, mucronate and pubescent at apex.

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Perennials; culms compressed, stoloniferous; flowering culms slender, glabrous, forming dense mats when growing in poor soils or when closely grazed by cattle. Leaf blade linear-oblong-obtuse, 10- 18 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, folded along midrib; sheaths compressed and strongly keeled; ligule a minutely fimbriate membrane. Racemes 2-4, 3-8 cm long, ascending. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, subacute, margins silky pilose, ca. 2 mm long; lower glume absent; upper glume as long as spikelet, slightly mucronate, 4-veined, midvein absent; lower lemma nearly as long as upper glume, margins silky pilose, 2-veined; upper floret ovate-obtuse, coriaceous, slightly shorter than spikelet; stigma purple; caryopsis elliptic-oblong, compressed, dark-colored.

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Perennials, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Rhizomes present, Rhizome elongate, creeping, stems distant, Stolons or runners present, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems geniculate, decumbent, or lax, sometimes rooting at nodes, Stems mat or turf forming, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stems compressed, flattened, or sulcate, Stem nodes bearded or hairy, Stem internodes solid or spongy, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly basal, below middle of stem, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy, hispid or prickly, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated , Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades lanceolate, Leaf blades ovate, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades 1-2 cm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blade margins folded, involute, or conduplicate, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Ligule present, Ligule a fringed, ciliate, or lobed membrane, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence lateral or axillary, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence with 2-10 branches, Inflorescence branches 1-sided, Inflorescence branches paired or digitate at a single node, Inflorescence branches paired racemes, V-shaped, Rachis angular, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets sessile or subsessile, Spikelets dorsally compressed or terete, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating below the glumes, Sp ikelets conspicuously hairy , Spikelets secund, in rows on one side of rachis, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 1 clearly present, the other greatly reduced or absent, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glume equal to or longer than spikelet, Glume surface hairy, villous or pilose, Glumes 4-7 nerved, Lemma coriaceous, firmer or thicker in texture than the glumes, Lemma becoming indurate, enclosing palea and caryopsis, Lemma glabrous, Lemma apex truncate, rounded, or obtuse, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma straight, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea longer than lemma, Palea 2 nerved or 2 keeled, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis.

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Perennial with vigorous creeping stolons, forming sward. Culms 15–60 cm tall, nodes bearded. Leaf sheaths loose, strongly compressed, keeled, basal sheaths imbricate; leaf blades broadly linear to lanceolate, flat or folded, 5–20 × 0.6–1.2 cm, glabrous or adaxial surface pilose, apex obtuse; ligule 0.3–0.5 mm. Racemes 2–5, digitate or subdigitate, 4–10 cm, only slightly diverging; rachis glabrous. Spikelets oblong-lanceolate, 2–2.7 mm, pilose or glabrous, apex acute; upper glume and lower lemma 2–4-veined, midvein absent, laterals marginal; upper lemma pale, oblong-elliptic, shorter than spikelet, obtuse with an apical tuft of hairs; stigmas pale. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn. 2n = 40, 50, 60, 80.

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Elevation Range

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900-1800 m

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Milium compressum Swartz, Prodr. 24. 1788; Paspalum compressum (Swartz) Raspail (1825), not Rafinesque (1817); P. guadaloupense Steudel.

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Milium compressum Sw., Prodr. 24. 1788.

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Type fragment for Paspalum raunkiaerii Mez
Catalog Number: US 2855975
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. C. Raunkiaer
Year Collected: 1906
Locality: Bordeaux Hill., St. John Island, Leeward Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, West Indies

Type fragment: Mez, C. C. 1917. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 60.

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Type fragment for Paspalum tristachyon Lam.
Catalog Number: US 2766196
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. C. M. Richard
Locality: Unknown (South America), South America

Type fragment: Lamarck, J. B. A. 1791. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 176.

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Holotype for Axonopus affinis Chase
Catalog Number: US 928710
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): T. H. Kearney
Year Collected: 1896
Locality: Waynesboro., Mississippi, United States, North America

Holotype: Chase, M. A. 1938. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 28: 180.

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Isotype for Axonopus affinis Chase
Catalog Number: US 740968
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): T. H. Kearney
Year Collected: 1896
Locality: Waynesboro., Mississippi, United States, North America

Isotype: Chase, M. A. 1938. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 28: 180.

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Type fragment for Paspalum depressum Steud.
Catalog Number: US 2854657
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. von Hartmann
Locality: Louisiana, United States, North America

Type fragment: Steudel, E. G. von. 1853. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 20.

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Holotype for Axonopus compressus var. australis G.A. Black
Catalog Number: US 602533
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. L. Ekman
Year Collected: 1907
Locality: Posadas in ruderatis prope 'La Granje" frequens., Misiones, Argentina, South America

Holotype: Black, G. A. 1963. Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 81.

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Type fragment for Paspalum macropodium Steud.
Catalog Number: US 80084
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): W. Jameson
Locality: Guayaquil., Guayas, Ecuador, South America

Type fragment: Steudel, E. G. von. 1853. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 19.

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Holotype for Axonopus multipes Swallen
Catalog Number: US 928824
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. S. Hitchcock
Year Collected: 1910
Locality: Veracruz., Veracruz, Mexico, North America

Holotype: Swallen, J. R. 1933. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 23: 459.

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Type fragment for Paspalum filostachyum A. Rich. ex Steud.
Catalog Number: US 2855746
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. W. Sieber
Locality: Unknown (West Indies), West Indies

Type fragment: Steudel, E. G. von. 1853. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 20.

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Type for Paspalum kisantuense Vanderyst
Catalog Number: US 888800
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Alleged type specimen status verified from secondary sources
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. J. Vanderyst
Year Collected: 1917
Locality: Kisantu., Zaire, Africa

Type: Vanderyst, H. J. 1918. Bull. Agric. Congo Belge. 9: 246.

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Roadsides, weedy places on moist ground, naturalized. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan [native to tropical America; widely introduced elsewhere].

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

Molecular Biology

Barcode data: Axonopus compressus

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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.

No available public DNA sequences.

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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Axonopus compressus

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 5
Species With Barcodes: 1

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Conservation

Conservation Status

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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

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United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure

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Axonopus compressus

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Axonopus compressus (Blanket grass, Broadleaf carpet grass, Lawn grass, Louisiana grass, Tropical carpet grass; syn. Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv. var. australis G.A.Black, Milium compressum Sw., Paspalum compressum (Sw.) Nees, Paspalum platycaule Willd. ex Steud., Paspalum platycaulon Poir.) is a grass which is often used as a permanent pasture, ground cover and turf in moist, low fertility soils, particularly in shaded situations. It is generally too low growing to be useful in cut-and-carry systems or for fodder conservation .

Common names

English: American carpet grass, blanket grass, broadleaf carpet grass, carpet grass, lawn grass, Louisiana grass, tropical carpet grass, savanna grass, kearsney grass
Fijian: kambutu ni vavalangi
French: buffalo américain
Spanish: alfombra, grama bahiana, grama trenza, zacate amargo
Portuguese: grama-são-carlos, grama curitibana, grama-sempre-verde, capim-bananal, pasto, grama tapete

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This is a good lawn and fodder grass.

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