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Details for: PI 542966,
Stenotaphrum secundatum
(Walter) Kuntze, 'DEL MAR'
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Stenotaphrum secundatum
(Walter) Kuntze
Cultivar:
'DEL MAR'
Origin:
Developed – Ohio, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
27 Jun 1990
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Stenotaphrum secundatum
(Walter) Kuntze
Cultivar:
'DEL MAR'
Origin:
Developed – Ohio, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
27 Jun 1990
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Source History
Developed
Ohio, United States
Developer(s):
Meier, Virgil D., O.M. Scott & Sons Company
Mixson, W.C.
Riordan, Terrance P., Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
Donated
27 June 1990.
Nebraska, United States
Donor(s):
Riordan, T.P., O.M. Scott & Sons
Accession Names and Identifiers
'DEL MAR'
Type: Cultivar name
Narrative
Good turf quality charactertistics throughout year. Color green throughout growing season and not as purple in stem as most other St. Augustinegrasses. Produces few flowering spikes. Resistant to decline virus and gray leafspot (Pyricularia grisea) and dollar spot (Curvalaria sp.). Tolerance to chinchbugs (Blissus sp.) and sod webworm (Cranbus sp.)
Stenotaphrum secundatum
(Walter) Kuntze
Genus:
Stenotaphrum
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:
35523
Place of publication:
Revis. gen. pl. 2:794. 1891
Verified:
02/16/2000
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Ischaemum secundatum
Walter
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
buffalo grass
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
St. Augustine grass
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English (Jamaica)
pimento grass
2
Burkill, H. M.
1994. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 2:366.
French
chiendent de boeuf
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)
grama-de-jardim
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
grama-inglesa
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
grama-italiana
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Spanish
grama de costa
2
Catasús Guerra, L. J.
2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
Spanish
pasto San Agustín
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
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Pedigree
Description:
Selected from controlled pollination of Seville
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration
. CV-138, OTHER GRASSES. Issued: 01 Mar 1991.
Riordan, T. P., W. C. Mixson, & V. D. Meier.
1991. Dal Mar St. Augustine Grass. Crop Sci. (Madison) 31(2):482.
Note:
CV-138
Material Transfer Agreement