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Identification
Paspalum paspalodes (Michx.) Scribn. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Paspalum distichum L. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Chase, A., Paspalum distichum L. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Munro, Paspalum chepica Steud. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Munro, Paspalum fernandezianum Colla [family POACEAE ] Verified by Munro,
Related name
  • Paspalum fernandezianum
  • Paspalum distichum
  • Paspalum paspalodes
  • Panicum polyrrhizum
  • Paspalum chepica

Flora

Entry for Paspalum distichum L. [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 3, (1989) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
Paspalum distichum L. [family GRAMINEAE], Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 855 (1759). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 389 (1955). — Bor, Grasses of B.C.I. & P.: 338 (1960). — Launert in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Mr. 160: 146 (1970). Type from Jamaica.
Digitaria paspalodes Michaux [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 46 (1803). Type from U.S.A.
Paspalum paspalodes Michaux Scribner [family GRAMINEAE], in Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. 5: 29 (1894). Type as above.
Information
Creeping stoloniferous perennial. Culms 8–60 cm. high. Racemes paired (rarely 3), each 2–8 cm. long, the spikelets borne singly in 2 rows on a rhachis 1–2 mm. wide. Spikelets 3–4 mm. long, ovate, plump, green. Inferior glume present on at least some spikelets as a tiny scale. Superior glume and inferior lemma somewhat coriaceous, the glume nearly always obscurely pubescent. Superior lemma pallid at maturity.
Habitat
Damp depressions and marshy, but not saline, soils. It occurs only as an escape in the Flora Zambesiaca area, but has become a serious weed in S. Africa.
Range
Tropics, but shunning the equatorial belt and extending to warm temperate regions
Distribution
Zimbabwe W Railway between Hwange and Victoria Falls, iii.1960, West in GHS 107816 (K; SRGH).
Notes
It closely resembles P. vaginatum, which has led to some nomenclatural confusion as the type sheet bears specimens of both species. This has now been resolved by lectotypification (Brummitt in Taxon 32: 281 1983).

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