Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Tripsacum fasciculatum Trin. ex Asch.

Common names:

• grama-Guatemala  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• pasto-Guatemala  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Durango]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Oaxaca, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave]

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Guatemala


Naturalized

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, United States [Puerto Rico]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia

References:

1. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource). Note: introduced
2. Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica Note: wrongly used for Tripsacum andersonii J. R. Gray
3. Blakey, C. A. 2007. Tripsacum genetics: from observations along a river to molecular genomics. Maydica 52:81-99.
4. Buckler, E. S. & T. P. Holtsford. 1996. Zea systematics: ribosomal ITS evidence. Molec. Biol. Evol. 13:612-622.
5. Burger, W. C., ed. 1971-. Flora costaricensis. Note: wrongly used for Tripsacum andersonii J. R. Gray
6. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
7. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1976. Systematics of Tripsacum (Gramineae). Phytologia 33:208. Note: = Tripsacum fasciculatum Trin. ex Asch.
8. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1983. Systematics of Tripsacum section Fasciculata (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 70:1142.
9. de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1984. Counterfeit hybrids between Tripsacum and Zea (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 71:245-251.
10. Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139-247. Note: introduced
11. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
12. Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003-. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica Note: unverified records allowed for its exclusion of the flora
13. 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
14. Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. Note: wrongly used for Tripsacum andersonii J. R. Gray
15. McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
16. Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16 262.
17. Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:559-902.
18. Wilkes, G. 2004. Corn, strange and marvelous: but is a definitive origin known?. Corn: origin, history, technology, and production 3-63.

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=40494. Accessed 1 July 2024.