Tropicos | Name - Paspalum plicatulum Michx.

Markup OCR Documents

Paspalum plicatulum Michx.

Search in The Plant List

Search in Australian Plant Name Index

Search in NYBG Virtual Herbarium

Search in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Search in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National Herbarium

Search in Virtual Herbaria Austria

Search in JSTOR Plant Science

Search in SEINet

Search in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical Garden

African Plants, Senckenberg Photo Gallery

Search in Flora do Brasil 2020

Search in Reflora - Virtual Herbarium

Search in Living Collections

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/16/2012)

Species	PASPALUM PLICATULUM
PlaceOfPublication	Fl. Bor. Amer. 1:45. 1803.
Synonym	Paspalum undulatum Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 5:29. 1804. Paspalum lenticulare H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:92. 1815. Paspalum gracile LeConte, Jour. de Phys. Chym. 91:285. 1820. Paspalus leptos Schult. Mant. 2: 173. 1824. Paspalum montevidense Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1:246. 1825. Paspalum tenue Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1:26. 1829. Paspalum multiflorum Desv. Opusc. 58. 1831. Paspalum orthos Schult. ex Kunth, Enum. P1. 1:57. 1833. Paspalum marginatum Spreng. in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 2:272. 1841, Panicum campestre Schlecht. Linnaea 26:131. 1853. Paspalum atrocarpum Steud. Syn. P1. Glum. 1:25. 1854. Paspalum antillense Husn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Normand. II. 5:260. 1871. Paspalum saxatile Salzm. ex Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 22:76. 1877. Paspalum decumbens Sagot ex Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 22:77. 1877. Paspalum plicatulum var. intumescens Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 22:78. 1877. Paspalum pauperculum Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:10. 1886. Paspalum pauperculum var. altius Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:10. 1886. Panicum plicatulum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 33:363. 1898.
Description	Perennial; culms in small tufts, mostly 0.5-1 m. high, erect or ascending, simple or sparingly branched, glabrous; sheaths longer than the internodes, keeled, glabrous or sparsely papillose-pilose; ligule 2-3 mm. long, brown, truncate; blades as much as 50 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, firm, flat or folded, glabrous or sparsely papillose-pilose on the upper surface, especially along the margins; racemes few to several, usually arcuate-spreading, 2-10 cm. long with a tuft of long hairs at the base, these sometimes nearly wanting; spikelets 2.5-2.8 mm. long, paired, glabrous or appressed-pubescent, the sterile lemma cross-wrinkled near the margins; fruit dark brown, smooth and shining.
Distribution	Moist open ground or wood borders, mostly in clay or sandy soil, southern United States and the West Indies to Argentina.
Specimen	CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8I90, 8292, 8293; Dolega, Hitchcock 8339 2. COCLE: Aguadulce, Pittier 49I4; El Valle, Bartlett & Lasser I6653. CANAL ZONE: Fort Randolph, Maxon & Harvey 6514; Standley 28600; Gatuin, Piper 5i98; Hitchcock 7969; 798I; Empire, Pittier 3725; Culebra, Hitchcock 7902, 8024; Summit, Standley 30000; Madden Dam, Bartlett & Lasser I6799; between Pedro Miguel and Corozal, Hitchcock 799I; between Corozal and Ancon, Pittier 673I; Corozal, Piper 5206; Killip 4099; Anc6n, Hill, Killip 40I2, 403I; Greenman C& Greenman 5I38; Ancon, Killip 41I6; Balboa, Stand- ley 25265, 261I3, 32099; Hitchcock 7995, 8oio. PANAMA: Chivi-Chivi Trail, Piper 5I98Y/2; Matias Hernaindez, Stantdley 28979; Las Sabanas, Pittier 6763; Standley 2590I; Panam'a, Standley 26874, 29705; Taboga Island, Pittier 3622; Chorrera, Hitchcock 8I24, 8I38; Chepo, Pittier 4494, 455I, 4742, 4648; Aguarubia, Killip 4280.

© 2024 - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110