African Plant Database


Paspalum distichum L.
Family : POACEAE
Protologue : Syst. Nat., ed. 10 2: 855 (1759) 
Information on the genus : Paspalum
 
 
Status
Status for NA : accepted (naturalised-introduced)
Status for SA : accepted (naturalised-introduced)
Status for TA : accepted (naturalised-introduced)
 
Synonym(s) Heterotypic
=Digitaria paspalodes Michx. (1803)
=Paspalum paspalodes (Michx.) Scribn. (1894)
=Paspalum distichum subsp. paspalodes (Michx.) Thell. (1912) non L.
 
Ecology and distribution
South. Afr.
Biol./Eco : perennial-Graminoid- Ht 0.1 - 0.6 m. Alt: 1 - 1815 m. Distribution: LES, NAM, EC, FS, GA, KN, LP, MP, NC, NW, WC, SWZ

Bibliography for Southern Africa :
  • Bothalia 1[1-3]: 258 (1921).

Bibliography for North Africa :
  • BATTANDIER, J. A. (1904). Modifications de la Flore atlantique; acquisitions, extinctions, plantes intermittentes. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 51: 345-350
  • Cat. Pl. Maroc 1: 25 (1931). 
  • Fl. Afrique N. 1: 305 (1952).
  • CUÉNOD, A. (1954). Flore analytique et synoptique de la Tunisie. Office de l'Expérimentation et de la Vulgarisation Agricoles.  
  • NÈGRE, R. (1961). Petite flore des régions arides du Maroc occidental. 1: 43
  • Fl. Algérie [Quézel & Santa] 1: 89 (1962).
  • VALDÉS, B., REJDALI, M., ACHHAL EL KADMIRI, JURY, J. L. & J. M. MONTSERRAT (2002). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Nord du Maroc, incluant des clés d'identification. II 2:
  • Fl. Egypt (Boulos) 4: 298 (2005).
  • List Fungi, Fl. Fau. Madeira Selv. Arch. : 205 (2008).
  • BOULOS, L. & E. LE FLOC'H (2008). Flore de Tunisie : catalogue synonymique commenté

Bibliography other :
  • Sosef, M. (2016). Taxonomic novelties in Central African grasses (Poaceae), Paniceae 1. Pl. Ecol. Evol. 149(3):  
 
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