Sporobolus virginicus

Sporobolus virginicus

Sporobolus virginicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Chloridoideae
Tribus: Zoysieae
Subtribus: Sporobolinae
Genus: Sporobolus
Species: Sporobolus virginicus

Name

Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth, 1829

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Agrostis virginica L., Sp. Pl.: 63 (1753).
• Homotypic
  • Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr.: 16 (1812).
  • Crypsis virginica (L.) Nutt., Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 49 (1818).
  • Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 85 (1827).
• Heterotypic
  • Agrostis juncea Lam., Encycl. 1: 60 (1783).
  • Agrostis littoralis Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 161 (1791).
  • Agrostis tremula Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 1: 372 (1797), nom. superfl.
  • Agrostis barbata Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 75 (1805), nom. superfl.
  • Vilfa barbata P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr.: 16 (1812), nom. superfl.
  • Vilfa littoralis (Lam.) P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr.: 16 (1812).
  • Agrostis distichophylla Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 354 (1817).
  • Agrostis pungens Muhl., Descr. Gram.: 72 (1817), nom. illeg.
  • Agrostis affinis Schult., Mant. 2: 195 (1824).
  • Aira sabulonum Labill., Sert. Austro-Caledon.: 16 (1824).
  • Vilfa intermedia Trin., Gram. Unifl. Sesquifl.: 156 (1824).
  • Vilfa tremula Trin., Gram. Unifl. Sesquifl.: 155 (1824).
  • Agrostis congener Schumach., Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 46 (1827).
  • Sporobolus littoralis (Lam.) Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 68 (1829).
  • Sporobolus muhlenbergii Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 68 (1829).
  • Sporobolus tremulus (Trin.) Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 67 (1829).
  • Vilfa matrella Nees in C.F.P.von Martius, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 400 (1829), nom. superfl.
  • Aira subulorum D.Dietr., Syn. Plant. 1: 339 (1839), orth. var.
  • Agrostis dura Willd. ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 40 (1840), pro syn.
  • Aira sabuletorum Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 45 (1840), orth. var.
  • Vilfa dura Trin., Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math., Seconde Pt. Sci. Nat. 5(2): 54 (1840).
  • Sporobolus matrella Nees, Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 152 (1841), nom. superfl.
  • Vilfa muhlenbergii Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 767 (1841).
  • Sporobolus confertus J.A.Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. Ins.: 142 (1852).
  • Vilfa conferta (J.A.Schmidt) Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 160 (1854).
  • Vilfa geniculata Nees ex Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 156 (1854).
  • Vilfa murina Sieber ex Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 157 (1854), pro syn.
  • Vilfa luxurians Steud. in W.Lechler, Berberid. Amer. Austral.: 56 (1857), nom. nud.
  • Sporobolus geniculatus (Nees ex Steud.) Nees ex Aitch., Cat. Pl. Punjab Sindh: 165 (1869).
  • Crypsis maritima Munro ex MacOwan, Cape Monthly Mag., n.s., 3(Suppl.): 7 (1871).
  • Aira sabulonum var. uniflora Balansa, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 19: 318 (1872).
  • Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth., Fl. Austral. 7: 621 (1878).
  • Sporobolus virginicus var. major Franch., Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 369 (1895).
  • Zoysia tremula B.D.Jacks., Index Kew. 2: 1254 (1895), nom. superfl.
  • Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 20(85): 348 (1915).
  • Sporobolus virginicus var. littoralis (Lam.) Hitchc. in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 17: 486 (1937).
  • Sporobolus sundaicus Ohwi, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. 18: 13 (1947).
  • Sporobolus virginicus subsp. littoralis (Lam.) Borhidi & O.Muñiz, Bot. Közlem. 58: 175 (1971).
  • Sporobolus virginicus var. minor B.K.Simon, Austrobaileya 2: 22 (1984).
  • Sporobolus humilis subsp. minor Veldkamp, Blumea 35: 420 (1991).
  • Sporobolus minutus subsp. confertus (J.A.Schmidt) Lobin, N.Kilian & Leyens, Willdenowia 25: 192 (1995).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropics & Subtropics Alabama, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Aruba, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Chile North, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Ecuador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kunth, C.S., 1829. Révis. Gramin. 1:67.

Additional references

• Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Sporobolus virginicus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 September 14. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Sporobolus virginicus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 September 14. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Sporobolus virginicus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 14 September 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Sporobolus virginicus. Published online. Accessed: September 14 2022.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Sporobolus virginicus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

English: beach dropseed, saltgrass, sand couch, seashore dropseed, seashore rush grass, seashore rushgrass

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