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Taxon: Crypsis vaginiflora (Forssk.) Opiz

Genus:

Crypsis

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Zoysieae

Subtribe:

Sporobolinae

Nomen number:

412678

Place of publication:

Naturalientausch 8:83. 1823

Link to protologue:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53886768

Name Verified on:

09-Feb-2004 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)

(=) Crypsis niliaca Fig. & De Not.
Basionym: Phalaris vaginiflora Forssk.

Common names:

modest prickle grass (Source: F NAmer) - English

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Tanzania
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Senegal

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India

Naturalized

Northern America

NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Idaho, Washington]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California (w.), Nevada]

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Hammel, B. E. & J. R. Reeder. 1979. The genus Crypsis in the United States. Syst. Bot. 4:277. URL: www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California

Check other web resources for Crypsis vaginiflora (Forssk.) Opiz :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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=412678. Accessed 1 July 2024.