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Taxon:
Zoysia matrella
(L.) Merr.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Zoysia
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
Tribe:
Zoysieae
Subtribe:
Zoysiinae
Nomen number:
42307
Place of publication:
Philipp. J. Sci., C 7:230. 1912
Verified:
02/10/2006
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Zoysia matrella
(L.) Merr. var.
matrella
(0 active accession[s])
Zoysia matrella
(L.) Merr. var.
pacifica
Goudswaard
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Agrostis matrella
L.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Osterdamia matrella
(L.) Kuntze
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Zoysia pungens
Willd.
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Reference(s)
Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp.
1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press.
Note:
Revised version of AH 170
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-. Flora of North America.
URL:
http://floranorthamerica.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Zoysia+matrella&quantity=1
George, A. S., ed.
1980-. Flora of Australia.
Giraldo-Cañas, D.
2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139-247.
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Kamal-Uddin, M. et al.
2009. Floristic composition of weed community in turf grass area of West Peninsular Malaysia. Int. J. Agric. Biol. 11:13-20.
URL:
http://www.fspublishers.org/ijab/index_ijab.jsp
Koyama, T.
1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions
Laegaard, S. & P. Pozo García.
2004. Invasive grasses in the Galapagos Islands. Lyonia 6:171-175.
Lazarides, M.
1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair.
1991. Flora of Kerala - grasses.
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:234.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia.
2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113-123.
Wagner, W. L. et al.
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
URL:
http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/query2.cfm
Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Note:
re. common names
Common names
English
flawn –
Reference(s)
Japanese carpet grass –
Reference(s)
Korean grass –
Reference(s)
Manila grass –
Reference(s)
siglap grass –
Reference(s)
zoysia –
Reference(s)
zoysia grass –
Reference(s)
French
chiendent gazon –
Reference(s)
Japanese Rōmaji
harishiba –
Reference(s)
kōshun-shiba –
Reference(s)
Spanish
hierba Manila –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Guangdong Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Hainan Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Taiwan
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Sri Lanka
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Thailand
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Vietnam
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Indonesia
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Malaysia
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Philippines
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Papuasia
Solomon Islands
1
Native
Australasia
Australia
Australia
Queensland
n.e.
1
Native
Pacific
Northwestern Pacific
United States
Northern Mariana Islands
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Malaysia
2
Cultivated
Southern America
Western South America
Colombia
4
Naturalized
Northern America
Mexico
4
Naturalized
Pacific
North-Central Pacific
United States
Hawaii
4
Naturalized
Southern America
Western South America
Ecuador
Native
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
[Guangdong Sheng, Hainan Sheng]
EASTERN ASIA:
Japan
[Ryukyu Islands],
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
,
Sri Lanka
PAPUASIA:
Solomon Islands
INDO-CHINA:
Thailand
,
Vietnam
MALESIA:
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
,
Philippines
Australasia
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
[Queensland (n.e.)]
Pacific
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
United States
[Northern Mariana Islands]
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
MALESIA:
Malaysia
Southern America
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Naturalized
Northern America
REGION:
Mexico
Pacific
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States
[Hawaii]
Southern America
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Ecuador
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Animal food
forage
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:234.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Environmental
erosion control
't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:234.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Environmental
lawn/turf
for lawns
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
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References