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

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

• (≡) Brachiaria reptans (L.) C. A. Gardner & C. E. Hubb.
• Basionym: Panicum reptans L.

Common names:

• creeping-panic grass  (Source: Blumea) - English
• running grass  (Source: Darwiniana) - English
• sprawling signal grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• capim-rasteiro  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• San Juan de Castillo  (Source: Darwiniana) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Ryukyu Islands] Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Pacific

• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Palau, United States [Northern Mariana Islands]


Naturalized

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius

Asia-Tropical

• PAPUASIA: Solomon Islands

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• Mexico

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: United States [Guam]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna Islands

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: West Indies
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia


Other (exact native range in Asia obscure)

References:

1. Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163. Note: = Brachiaria reptans (L.) C. A. Gardner & C. E. Hubb.
2. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: = Brachiaria reptans (L.) C. A. Gardner & C. E. Hubb.
3. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
4. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
5. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
6. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
7. Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. Note: = Brachiaria reptans (L.) C. A. Gardner & C. E. Hubb.
8. Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds Note: = Brachiaria reptans (L.) C. A. Gardner & C. E. Hubb.
9. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
10. Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1992. Revisión de las especies sudamericanas nativas e introducidas de los géneros Brachiaria y Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Darwiniana 31:100-101.
11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
12. The Missouri Botanical Garden with others. A Catalogue of the vascular plants of Madagascar (on-line resource).
13. Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41:427-428.
14. Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
15. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
16. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:633-634.

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=405198. Accessed 1 July 2024.