Paspalum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Paspalum
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Paspalum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Paspalum
Paspalum is a genus of plants in the grass family.
The group is widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Commonly known as paspalum, bahiagrasses, crowngrasses or dallis grasses, many of the species are tall perennial New World grasses. They are warm-season C4 grasses and are most diverse in subtropical and tropical regions.
Paspalum scrobiculatum (koda, varuka, varuku, etc.) is a millet locally grown as food grain. Some species, such as bahiagrass (P. notatum) and P. nicorae, are grown for pasturage, especially with the perennial forage peanut (Arachis glabrata) as a companion crop. Bahiagrass has also some significance as a honey plant.
Water finger-grass (P. vaginatum) resembles bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon), but has a higher salinity tolerance and can consume greywater. It is not infrequently used for arena and golf course turf in warmer coastal regions, such as Baja California, Florida, Peru, Texas and Venezuela. Dedicated paspalum cultivars such as 'Aloha Seashore' or 'Platinum TE' have been produced for such uses.
Paspalums are also food for caterpillars of lepidopterans such as the pasture day moth (Apina callisto), and those of the dark palm dart (Telicota ancilla) which feed on P. urvillei. Granivorous birds often eat paspalum seeds; the chestnut-breasted munia (Lonchura castaneothorax) readily feeds on the seeds of P. longifolium, for example.
The ergot Claviceps paspali is a sac fungus that grows on Paspalum, producing ergot alkaloids and the tremorgen paspalitrem; it causes "paspalum staggers" poisoning in cattle.
Tussock paspalum (P. quadrifarium) is considered a noxious weed in Australia. The term “paspalum” without qualification in Australia refers to the common lawn weed P. dilatatum. Australia has five native and approximately sixteen naturalised species.
Daikin Park, the home ballpark of the Houston Astros, has Platinum TE Paspalum as its field surface.
...Paspalum in languages:
- Chinese
- 雀稗屬
- Czech
- paspal
- English
- Paspalum
- Finnish
- helmihirssit
- Japanese
- スズメノヒエ属
- Korean
- 참새피속
- Russian
- Паспалум
- Swedish
- tvillinghirser
- Thai
- สกุล หญ้าพาสพาลัม
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Paspalum acuminatum
- Paspalum acutifolium
- Paspalum acutum
- Paspalum adoperiens
- Paspalum affine
- Paspalum alcalinum
- Paspalum almum
- Paspalum anderssonii
- Paspalum apiculatum
- Paspalum arenarium
- Paspalum arsenei
- Paspalum arundinaceum
- Paspalum azuayense
- Paspalum barclayi
- Paspalum bifidum
- Paspalum blodgettii
- Paspalum bonplandianum
- Paspalum boscianum
- Paspalum botterii
- Paspalum breve
- Paspalum caespitosum
- Paspalum campylostachyum
- Paspalum canarae
- Paspalum candidum
- Paspalum carinatum
- Paspalum centrale
- Paspalum ceresia
- Paspalum chiapense
- Paspalum clavuliferum
- Paspalum conjugatum
- Paspalum conspersum
- Paspalum convexum
- Paspalum corcovadense
- Paspalum coryphaeum
- Paspalum costaricense
- Paspalum crassum
- Paspalum crinitum
- Paspalum culiacanum
- Paspalum cymbiforme
- Paspalum dasypleurum
- Paspalum decumbens
- Paspalum delicatum
- Paspalum densum
- Paspalum denticulatum
- Paspalum dilatatum
- Paspalum dispar
- Paspalum dissectum
- Paspalum distachyon
- Paspalum distichum
- Paspalum distortum
- Paspalum divergens
- Paspalum eglume
- Paspalum erectum
- Paspalum erianthum
- Paspalum exaltatum
- Paspalum fasciculatum
- Paspalum filiforme
- Paspalum fimbriatum
- Paspalum flavum
- Paspalum floridanum
- Paspalum foliiforme
- Paspalum forsterianum
- Paspalum galapageium
- Paspalum geminiflorum
- Paspalum glabrinode
- Paspalum guayanerum
- Paspalum guenoarum
- Paspalum haenkeanum
- Paspalum hartwegianum
- Paspalum haumanii
- Paspalum heterotrichon
- Paspalum hintonii
- Paspalum hirtum
- Paspalum hitchcockii
- Paspalum huberi
- Paspalum humboldtianum
- Paspalum hyalinum
- Paspalum hydrophylum
- Paspalum inconstans
- Paspalum indecorum
- Paspalum intermedium
- Paspalum jaliscanum
- Paspalum jesuiticum
- Paspalum killipii
- Paspalum laeve
- Paspalum lanciflorum
- Paspalum langei
- Paspalum laxum
- Paspalum lentiginosum
- Paspalum leptachne
- Paspalum ligulare
- Paspalum lilloi
- Paspalum lindenianum
- Paspalum lineare
- Paspalum longepedunculatum
- Paspalum longicuspe
- Paspalum longifolium
- Paspalum longum
- Paspalum luxurians
- Paspalum macrophyllum
- Paspalum maculosum
- Paspalum madorense
- Paspalum malacophyllum
- Paspalum mandiocanum
- Paspalum maritimum
- Paspalum mayanum
- Paspalum melanospermum
- Paspalum microstachyum
- Paspalum millegranum
- Paspalum minus
- Paspalum modestum
- Paspalum molle
- Paspalum monostachyum
- Paspalum multicaule
- Paspalum mutabile
- Paspalum nelsonii
- Paspalum nicorae
- Paspalum niquelandiae
- Paspalum notatum
- Paspalum nutans
- Paspalum orbiculare
- Paspalum orbiculatum
- Paspalum pallidum
- Paspalum palmeri
- Paspalum paniculatum
- Paspalum pauciciliatum
- Paspalum peckii
- Paspalum pectinatum
- Paspalum penicillatum
- Paspalum petrosum
- Paspalum phyllorhachis
- Paspalum pilgerianum
- Paspalum pilosum
- Paspalum plenum
- Paspalum plicatulum
- Paspalum polyphyllum
- Paspalum praecox
- Paspalum prodigiosum
- Paspalum prostratum
- Paspalum pubiflorum
- Paspalum pulchellum
- Paspalum pumilum
- Paspalum pygmaeum
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- Paspalum quarinii
- Paspalum racemosum
- Paspalum reclinatum
- Paspalum redundans
- Paspalum repens
- Paspalum riparium
- Paspalum robustum
- Paspalum rugulosum
- Paspalum rupestre
- Paspalum saccharoides
- Paspalum saugetii
- Paspalum schultesii
- Paspalum scrobiculatum
- Paspalum scutatum
- Paspalum serpentinum
- Paspalum setaceum
- Paspalum sodiroanum
- Paspalum sparsum
- Paspalum squamulatum
- Paspalum stellatum
- Paspalum sumatrense
- Paspalum tenellum
- Paspalum thrasyoides
- Paspalum thunbergii
- Paspalum tillettii
- Paspalum tinctum
- Paspalum tolucense
- Paspalum trachycoleon
- Paspalum trianae
- Paspalum tuberosum
- Paspalum turriforme
- Paspalum umbrosum
- Paspalum unispicatum
- Paspalum urbanianum
- Paspalum urvillei
- Paspalum vaginatum
- Paspalum variabile
- Paspalum virgatum
- Paspalum virletii
- Paspalum wrightii
- Paspalum yecorae
- Reimarochloa acuta
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