See other conspecific taxa:

• Axonopus compressus var. compressus (0 accessions)
• Axonopus compressus var. jesuitica (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Axonopus compressus var. australis G. A. Black
• Basionym: Milium compressum Sw.

Common names:

• blanket grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• broadleaf carpet grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• carpet grass  (Source: BSBI) - English
• Dorrington grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• lawn grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• Louisiana grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• tropical carpet grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Teppichgras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• assonopo compresso  (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
• tsurume-hishiba  (Source: F Okin) - Japanese Rōmaji
• pasto-chato  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• alfombra  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• cañamazo dulce  (Source: Cavanillesia Alt) - Spanish
• grama trenza  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• zacate amargo  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• ditan cao  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage
• Environmental: lawn/turf
• Weed: potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas (c.), Florida (s.), Georgia (w.-c.), Louisiana (s.), Mississippi (n.e.), South Carolina (s.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas (e.)]
• Mexico

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, United States [Puerto Rico]
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay


Cultivated

Asia-Tropical

• MALESIA: Malaysia


Naturalized (widely natzd. in paleotropics)

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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=6174. Accessed 3 July 2024.