Summary
Place of publication:
Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 3:13. 1966
Verified:
03/06/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
buffalo grass – Dutch grass – giant couch – Mauritius grass – Para grass – Scotch grass – Scottish grass – French
herbe de Para – German
Paragras – Japanese Rōmaji
para-gurasu – Spanish
hierba de Pará – paraná – pasto Pará –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Mauritius | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Reunion | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | New Zealand | New Zealand | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | Mexico | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | United States | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | North-Central Pacific | United States | Hawaii | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | Northwestern Pacific | Guam | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | Northwestern Pacific | Marshall Islands | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | South-Central Pacific | Cook Islands | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | South-Central Pacific | French Polynesia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | American Samoa | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | Fiji | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | New Caledonia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | Tonga | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Cayman Islands | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Hispaniola | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Jamaica | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Puerto Rico | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | Virgin Islands (U.S.) | St. Croix | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Central America | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Honduras | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Panama | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
6 | Other | | | | | |
Cultivated
Southern America
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
-
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Naturalized
Africa
-
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Mauritius, Reunion
Asia-Temperate
-
EASTERN ASIA:
Japan, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
-
INDO-CHINA:
Thailand, Vietnam
-
MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia
Australasia
-
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
-
NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand
Northern America
-
REGION:
Mexico, United States
Pacific
-
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States [Hawaii]
-
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Guam, Marshall Islands
-
SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
Cook Islands, French Polynesia
-
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
American Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga
Southern America
-
BRAZIL:
Brazil
-
CARIBBEAN:
Hispaniola, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (U.S.) [St. Croix]
-
MESOAMERICA:
Central America, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
-
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Other
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Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | fodder | | 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:64-65. |
Animal food | forage | | 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:64-65. |
Environmental | erosion control | | 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:64-65. |
Weed | | | CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=401380.
Accessed 6 October 2024.