Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Comb's Crowngrass, Comb´s Paspalum, Comb's Paspalum, Combs Crowngrass
Description
Genus Paspalum
Perennials
or annuals
. Culms
tufted
, or with creeping
rhizomes and stolons. Leaf blades
linear
or narrowly lanceolate, flat; ligule membranous. Inflorescence composed of single, digitate or scattered
racemes
; rachis flat, often winged
; spikelets
single or paired
, pedicellate
in 2-4 rows
, densely crowded, lower lemma abaxial
. Spikelets orbicular
, ovate
or elliptic
plano-convex
; lower glume
absent or rarely present as a small scale; upper glume as long as spikelet or nearly so, rarely absent, convex
, membranous to subpapery, 3-7-veined; lower lemma resembling upper glume, flat, neuter
without palea; upper lemma usually coriaceous
to crustaceous
, rarely softer, margins
inrolled
, apex obtuse
to apiculate
. x = 10.
About 330 species:tropical and warm-temperate regions, especially in the New World; 16 species (two endemic, eight introduced
) in China.
This genus includes a number of good forage
grasses and also some widespread weeds
.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Graminoid
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 328 meters (0 to 1,076 feet).[2]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Juncanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Poales
()
- Small, 1903
- Family:
Gramineae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Panicoideae
()
- Tribe:
Paniceae
()
- Subtribe:
Setariinae
()
- Genus:
Paspalum
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1759
- Crowngrass
- Specific epithet:
almum
- Chase
- Botanical name: - Paspalum almum Chase
- Specific epithet:
almum
- Chase
- Genus:
Paspalum
(
- Subtribe:
Setariinae
(
- Tribe:
Paniceae
(
- Subfamily:
Panicoideae
(
- Family:
Gramineae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Juncanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Paspalum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 78 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
P. acuminatum (Book Paspalum) · P. almum (Comb's Crowngrass) · P. arundinaceum (Thick Ditch Crowngrass) · P. bakeri (Baker's Crowngrass) · P. bifidum (Pitchfork Crowngrass) · P. blodgettii (Blodgett's Crowngrass) · P. boscianum (Bull Crowngrass) · P. caespitosum (Blue Crowngrass) · P. clavuliferum (Hillside Crowngrass) · P. compressum (Savannah Grass) · P. conjugatum (Herbe Creole) · P. conspersum (Scattered Paspalum) · P. convexum (Latin American Crowngrass) · P. coryphaeum (Emperor Crowngrass) · P. decumbens (Decumbent Crowngrass) · P. densum (Dense Crowngrass) · P. denticulatum (Longtom) · P. dilatatum (Dallas Grass) · P. dilatatum dilatatum (Palpalum Dilate) · P. dispar (Mosquito Crowngrass) · P. dissectum (Mudbank Crowngrass) · P. distichum (Joint Paspalum) · P. fasciculatum (Mexican Crowngrass) · P. fimbriatum (Colombia Grass) · P. floridanum (Florida Paspalum) · P. fluitans (Horse-Tail Paspalum) · P. hartwegianum (Hartweg's Paspalum) · P. hieronymi (Paspalum) · P. hydrophilum (Water Paspalum) · P. intermedium (Intermediate Paspalum) · P. laeve (Field Paspalum) · P. laeve var. laeve (Field Paspalum) · P. langei (Rusty-Seed Paspalum) · P. laxum (Coconut Paspalum) · P. lividum (Longtom) · P. longifolium (Long-Leaved Paspalum) · P. macrophyllum (Bigleaf Paspalum) · P. malacophyllum (Ribbed Paspalum) · P. maritimum (Coastalsand Paspalum) · P. millegrana (Paja Brava) · P. minus (Mat Paspalum) · P. modestum (Water Paspalum) · P. molle (Soft Paspalum) · P. monostachyum (Gulfdune Paspalum) · P. nicorae (Brunswickgrass) · P. notatum (Bahia Grass) · P. notatum var. latiflorum (Bahiagrass) · P. notatum var. notatum (Bahiagrass) · P. notatum var. saurae (Bahiagrass) · P. notatum 'Argentine' (Bahia Grass) · P. notatum 'Pensacola' (Bahia Grass) · P. notatum 'Tifton 9' (Bahia Grass) · P. orbiculatum (Circular Paspalum) · P. paniculatum (Arrocillo) · P. parviflorum (Smallseed Paspalum) · P. pauciciliatum (Prostrate Dallis Grass) · P. paucispicatum (Large Knotgrass) · P. pleostachyum (Tropical Paspalum) · P. plicatulum (Brown-Seed Paspalum) · P. praecox (Early Paspalum) · P. pubiflorum (Hairy-Seed Paspalum) · P. pubiflorum var. pubiflorum (Hairyseed Paspalum) · P. pulchellum (Grand Paspalum) · P. quadrifarium (Tussock Paspalum) · P. racemosum (Peruvian Paspalum) · P. rupestre (Rock Paspalum) · P. scrobiculatum (India Paspalum) · P. scrobiculatum var. orbiculare (Ditch Millet) · P. secans (Slender Ditch Paspalum) · P. setaceum (Fringeleaf Paspalum) · P. thunbergii (Japanese Paspalum) · P. unispicatum (One-Spike Paspalum) · P. urvillei (Vasey Grass) · P. vaginatum (Seashore Paspalum) · P. vaginatum 'Te-13' (Seashore Paspalum) · P. virgatum (Talquezal) · P. virletii (Virlet Paspalum) · P. wrightii (Wrights Paspalum)
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Further Reading
- Manual of the grasses of the United States / by A.S. Hitchcock. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1935. url p. 583, p. 584, p. 916.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 453.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, SysTax
- SysTax, Universidad de Buenos Aires
- SysTax, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2661152
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-41007
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13753688
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:413816-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 26817
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 41007
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PMPOA4P020
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: PAAL7
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 53744
Footnotes
- Shou-liang Chen & Sylvia M. Phillips "Paspalum". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 1, 500, 526. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = -382.950 meters (-1,256.398 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,543.930 based on 22 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
