Paspalum
Sign in to savethumb|right|Water finger-grass, Paspalum vaginatum thumb|Mr. Shahid Nawaz Landge collecting Paspalum longifolium var. lorirhachis Bor from its natural habitats, Madhya Pradesh, India. Paspalum is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9,609
- With media
- 3,879
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- CICY, ECOSUR, IIB-UV, FCB-BUAP, INECOL, FC-UNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Research
622 papers- How to Become an Apomixis Model: The Multifaceted Case of Paspalum.Genes · 2020
- Reproductive Systems in Paspalum: Relevance for Germplasm Collection and Conservation, Breeding Techniques, and Adoption of Released Cultivars.Frontiers in plant science · 2019
- Development of Protocols for Regeneration and Transformation of Apomitic and Sexual Forms of Dallisgrass (Paspalum dilatatum Poir.).Frontiers in plant science · 2021
- Harnessing apomictic reproduction in grasses: what we have learned from Paspalum.Annals of botany · 2013
- Genome of Paspalum vaginatum and the role of trehalose mediated autophagy in increasing maize biomass.Nature communications · 2022
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Selected species
- Formerly placed here
- Notes
- References
thumb|right|Water finger-grass, Paspalum vaginatum thumb|Mr. Shahid Nawaz Landge collecting Paspalum longifolium var. lorirhachis Bor from its natural habitats, Madhya Pradesh, India. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paspalum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.