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Taxon: Eustachys distichophylla (Lag.) Nees

Genus:

Eustachys

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Eleusininae

Nomen number:

407193

Place of publication:

C. F. P. von Martius et al., Fl. bras. enum. pl. 2(1):418. 1829 (Agrost. bras.)

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

16-Dec-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

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

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

Basionym: Chloris distichophylla Lag.
(≡) Chloris distichophylla var. distichophylla Lag.

Common names:

frost-resistant Rhodes grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
tassel grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
winter-growing rhodes grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
capim-batatal (Source: Candollea) - Portuguese
pasto borla (Source: Candollea) - Spanish
pasto plumero (Source: Candollea) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Animal food: fodder (as Chloris distichophylla)

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

BRAZIL: Brazil [Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo]
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

Cultivated

Southern America

BRAZIL: Brazil

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere, incl. s. United States)

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Molina, A. M. 1996. Revisión taxonómica del género Eustachys Desv. (Poaceae: Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae) in Sudamérica. Candollea 51:238-246.
Renvoize, S. A. 1984. The grasses of Bahia
Renvoize, S. A. 1988. Hatschbach's Parana grasses
Renvoize, S. A. 1998. Gramineas de Bolivia
Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47

Check other web resources for Eustachys distichophylla (Lag.) Nees :

Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
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=407193. Accessed 3 July 2024.