Axonopus compressus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Genus Axonopus

Perennials , rarely annuals . Culms tufted or stoloniferous . Leaf blades flat or involute , often obtuse ; ligule short, membranous-ciliolate. Inflorescence composed of 2 to many slender racemes , mostly subdigitate but sometimes along a short central axis; spikelets borne singly, subsessile , alternating in 2 rows along the narrow triquetrous rachis, lower lemma adaxial . Spikelets lanceolate to oblong , flatly biconvex , florets 2 (but apparently 1) ; lower glume absent; upper glume membranous, as long as spikelet, obscurely 4- or 5-veined; lower floret neuter , reduced to an empty lemma similar to upper glume, its palea absent; upper floret crustaceous, lemma margins inrolled , apex obtuse. x = 9, 10.

About 110 species: tropical and subtropical America, one species in Africa; two species (both introduced ) in China.

Many species of Axonopus are good forage or lawn grasses. The two species found in China have been widely introduced in the humid tropics of the world.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Roadsides, weedy places on moist ground , naturalized .[2].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Milium compressum Sw. • Milium compressum Swartz • P. guadaloupense Steudel. • Paspalum compressum (Swartz) Raspail (1825) • Prodr. 24. 1788

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Axonopus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. aureus (Golden Carpetgrass) · A. barbiger (Flounders) · A. compressus (Broadleaf Carpetgrass) · A. fissifolius (Carpetgrass) · A. furcatus (Big Carpet Grass) · A. purpusii (Purpus' Carpetgrass) · A. scoparius (Carpetgrass)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• "Axonopus compressus". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 530, 531. Published by Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 13 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 25, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Bioversity International: The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Banco Nacional de Germoplasma Vegetal, México (BANGEV, UACH)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJÍO)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-XAL)
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane
• Herbier de l'Université Louis Pasteur: herbier de nouvelle-caledonie
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Galapagos grasses and sedges
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: MEXU/Plantas Vasculares
• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah State University: USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2661476
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-41465
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:165561-3
• GRIN Nomen Number: 6174
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 41465
• MoBot NameID: 25509318
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PMPOA0U030
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MICO14
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 21016

Footnotes

1. Shou-liang Chen & Sylvia M. Phillips "Axonopus". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500, 530. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Axonopus compressus". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 530, 531. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 358.890 meters (1,177.461 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,003.450 based on 377 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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