Common names:

• Mexican gama grass  (Source: Grass US) - English

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona (s.)]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas (s.), Baja California (Norte), Baja California Sur]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo]

References:

1. Blakey, C. A. et al. 2007. Tripsacum genetics: from observations along a river to molecular genomics. Maydica 52:81-99. Note: this review provides evidence of the potential of the whole Tripsacum genus as a source of pest resistance & crop quality genes for maize
2. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1983. Systematics of Tripsacum section Fasciculata (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 70:1140.
3. Eubanks, M. E. 2001. The mysterious origin of maize. Econ. Bot. 55:492-514.
4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
5. Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
6. Larson, S. R. & J. Doebley. 1994. Restriction site variation in the chloroplast genome of Tripsacum (Poaceae): phylogeny and rates of sequence evolution. Syst. Bot. 19:21-34. URL: www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
7. McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
8. Randolph, L. F. 1970. Variation among Tripsacum populations of Mexico and Guatemala. Brittonia 22:305-337. Note: this study provides morphological features of typical & intermediate populations
9. Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:559-902.
10. Wilkes, G. 2004. Corn, strange and marvelous: but is a definitive origin known?. Corn: origin, history, technology, and production 3-63.
11. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:626.

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=40492. Accessed 1 July 2024.