Tripsacum maizar Hern.-Xol. & Randolph GRIN-Global

Taxon: Tripsacum maizar Hern.-Xol. & Randolph

Summary

Genus:

Tripsacum

Section:

Fasciculata

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Tripsacinae

Nomen number:

319462

Place of publication:

Secr. Agric. Ganad. México Of. Estud. Espec. Folleto Técn. 4:7. 1950

Verified:

03/03/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

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

Other conspecific taxa

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

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Reference(s)

Blakey, C. A. et al. 2007. Tripsacum genetics: from observations along a river to molecular genomics. Maydica 52:81-99.
Buckler, E. S. & T. P. Holtsford. 1996. Zea systematics: ribosomal ITS evidence. Molec. Biol. Evol. 13:612-22.
Buckler, E. S. & T. P. Holtsford. 1996. Zea systematics: ribosomal ITS evidence. Molec. Biol. Evol. 13:612-22.
de Wet, J. M. J. et al. 1983. Systematics of Tripsacum section Fasciculata (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 70:1142.
Eubanks, M. E. 2001. The mysterious origin of maize. Econ. Bot. 55:492-514.
Eubanks, M. W. 2006. Chapter 5. Contributions of Tripsacum to maize diversity. Darwin's harvest: new approaches to the origins, evolution, and conservation of crops. 2006 91-117.
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.
Leblanc, O. et al. 1995. Chromosome doubling in Tripsacum: the production of artificial, sexual tetraploid plants. Pl. Breed. (New York) 114:226-230.
Leblanc, O. et al. 1995. Chromosome doubling in Tripsacum: the production of artificial, sexual tetraploid plants. Pl. Breed. (New York) 114:226-230.
Li, Y. G. et al. 2000. Sectional delineation of sexual Tripsacum dactyloides - T. maizar allotriploids. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 85:845-850.
Li, Y. G. et al. 2000. Sectional delineation of sexual Tripsacum dactyloides - T. maizar allotriploids. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 85:845-850.
McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. 1983-
Wilkes, G. 2004. Corn, strange and marvelous: but is a definitive origin known? Corn: origin, history, technology, and production. 2004 3-63.
Wilkes, G. 2004. Corn, strange and marvelous: but is a definitive origin known? Corn: origin, history, technology, and production. 2004 3-63.
Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:626.

Common names

Spanish
zacatón maizar –

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Colima
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Jalisco
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Mexico
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacan
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Nayarit
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Oaxaca
1	Native	Southern America	Mesoamerica	Guatemala

Native
Northern America

SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca]

Southern America

MESOAMERICA: Guatemala

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=319462. Accessed 15 December 2025.