Paspalum conjugatum |
Paspalum repens |
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herbe creole, Hilo grass, muhsrasre, rehn wei, sour grass, sour paspalum, ti grass |
water paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; stoloniferous. | Plants annual; aquatic, floating or rhizomatous. |
Culms | 15-80 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. |
4-55 cm, erect; nodes pubescent. |
Sheaths | glabrous, pubescent distally; ligules 0.5-0.8 mm; blades 7-23 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat. |
glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1-4 mm; blades 10-40 cm long, 8-22 mm wide, flat, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
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 (7)20-70 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.2-9.5 cm, diverging to spreading, occasionally arcuate, disarticulating at maturity; branch axes 0.7-1.5 mm wide, broadly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, extending beyond the distal spikelet. |
Spikelets | 1.3-1.9 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, ovate, stramineous. |
1.1-1.9 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic, pubescent, white. |
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 and lower lemmas veinless; upper florets white. |
Caryopses | 0.9-1.1 mm, white to yellow. |
0.8-0.9 mm, translucent, white. |
2n | = 18, 20, 40, 80. |
= 20. |
Paspalum conjugatum |
Paspalum repens |
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Distribution |
AL; FL; LA; MS; TX; UT; HI; PR; Virgin Islands
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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 repens is a native species that grows along the edges of lakes, streams, and roadside ditches in the southeastern United States. Its range extends through tropical America to Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 572. | FNA vol. 25, p. 571. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. repens var. fluitans, P. fluitans | |
Name authority | P.J. Bergius | P.J. Bergius |
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