Paspalum conjugatum |
Paspalum pleostachyum |
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herbe creole, Hilo grass, muhsrasre, rehn wei, sour grass, sour paspalum, ti grass |
tropical paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; stoloniferous. | Plants perennial; cespitose. |
Culms | 15-80 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. |
80-110 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. |
Sheaths | glabrous, pubescent distally; ligules 0.5-0.8 mm; blades 7-23 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat. |
glabrous, sparsely pubescent apically; ligules 1-2.9 mm; blades to 62 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, mostly involute, pubescent above, glabrous below. |
Panicles | terminal, usually composed of a pair of branches, a third branch sometimes present below the terminal pair; branches 2.5-12.7 cm, diverging to spreading, often arcuate, persistent; branch axes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a reduced spikelet. |
terminal, with 3-15 racemosely arranged branches; branches 5.2-12.5 cm, divergent to spreading, terminating in a spikelet; branch axes 0.3-0.8 mm wide, very narrowly winged, scabrous. |
Spikelets | 1.3-1.9 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, ovate, stramineous. |
2.2-2.5 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, white to light stramineous. |
Lower glumes | absent; upper glumes pilose on the margins, veinless or 2-3-veined; lower lemmas glabrous, veinless or 2-3-veined; upper florets whitish to golden yellow. |
absent; upper glumes glabrous, 5-veined; lower lemmas glabrous, 3-veined; upper florets 1.4-2 mm, white to stramineous. |
Caryopses | 0.9-1.1 mm, white to yellow. |
1-1.6 mm, suborbicular, brown. |
2n | = 18, 20, 40, 80. |
= unknown. |
Paspalum conjugatum |
Paspalum pleostachyum |
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Distribution |
AL; FL; LA; MS; TX; UT; HI; PR; Virgin Islands
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FL; PR |
Discussion | Paspalum conjugatum is native to tropical and subtropical regions of both the Western and Eastern hemispheres, including the Flora region. It grows in disturbed areas and at the edges of forests, and is sometimes used as a lawn grass. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Paspalum pleostachyum grows in sandy soil or rocky areas in Florida, the West Indies, and from northern South America to Brazil. It is usually found along the coast. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 572. | FNA vol. 25. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Name authority | P.J. Bergius | Doll |
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