Details for: PI 591483, Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L., 9051764

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Top Name:

9051764

Origin:

Collected – Maryland, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

28 Aug 1995

Improvement Status:

Breeding material

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.

There are no images for this accession.

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Top Name:

9051764

Origin:

Collected – Maryland, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

28 Aug 1995

Improvement Status:

Breeding material

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

Maryland, United States
Locality: Roadside, Beltsville.

Donated

New York, United States

Donor(s):

Salon, Paul, USDA, NRCS

Accession Names and Identifiers

9051764

Type: Developer identifier

Group: NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Narrative

Reproduces by apomixis. Leaves wide. Stems thick. Leaves light green. Growth habit upright. Flowers 3 weeks later than the diploids and has monoecious inflorescense. For use as perennial forage crop in the Northeast. Adapted to Northeastern, midatlantic and midwestern states. Grows on moderately well drained to excessively well drained soils. Tolerates soils with seasonally high water table.

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Genus:

Tripsacum

Section:

Tripsacum

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Tripsacinae

Nomen number:

40489

Place of publication:

Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1261. 1759

Verified:

03/04/2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. var. dactyloides (0 active accession[s])
Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. var. hispidum (Hitchc.) de Wet & J. R. Harlan (1 active accession[s])
Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. var. meridonale de Wet & Timothy (84 active accession[s])
Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. var. mexicanum de Wet & J. R. Harlan (0 active accession[s])

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

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	eastern gama grass	1	Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
English	gama grass	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
French	herbe grama	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Gamagras	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	capim-gigante	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	macillo	2	Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Spanish	pasto Guatemala	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	zacate maicero	2	Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico. 261.
Swedish	gamagräs	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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