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Taxon: Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. var. meridonale de Wet & Timothy

 
Genus: Tripsacum
Section: Tripsacum
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Tripsacinae
Nomen number: 319450
Place of publication: J. M. J. de Wet et al., Amer. J. Bot. 68:274, fig. 4. 1981
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 04-Mar-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Southern America
    • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela [Monagas, Portuguesa, Tachira, Trujillo]
    • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia


References:

  1. Blakey, C. A. et al. 2007. Tripsacum genetics: from observations along a river to molecular genomics. Maydica 52:81-99.
  2. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1981. Systematics of South American Tripsacum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 68:269-276. Note: New World Tripsacum is closely related to Zea; this study recognized T. dactyloides as morphologicaly variable with different ploidy levels associated to reproductive syndromes from sexual to gametophytic apomictic; South American var. meridionale includes diploid and tetraploid populations
  3. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Counterfeit hybrids between Tripsacum and Zea (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:245-251.
  4. Eubanks, M. W. 1997. Molecular analysis of crosses between Tripsacum dactyloides and Zea diploperennis (Poaceae). Theor. Appl. Genet. 94:707-712.
  5. Eubanks, M. W. 2001. The mysterious origin of maize. Econ. Bot. 55:492-514.
  6. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:625.

Check other web resources for Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. var. meridonale de Wet & Timothy :

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=319450. Accessed 3 July 2024.