Details for: PI 594912, Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack., 'TifBlair'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.
Cultivar:
'TifBlair'
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
02 May 1996
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.
Cultivar:
'TifBlair'
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
02 May 1996
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Accession Names and Identifiers
'TifBlair'
Type: Cultivar name

TC312
Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative
Quality, color, and greenup characteristics similar to common centipedegrass under favorable growing conditions. Grows more rapidly, more vigorous, and better quality than common centipedegrass. Growth reduced 5% on a soil with pH 4.3 compared to pH 5.2, while growth of common centipedegrass reduced 35% on the same soils. Produces more stolons that grow faster and more leaves than common centipedegrass. First seed-propagated commercial centipedegrass cultivar with a known pedigree.
Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.
Genus:
Eremochloa
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Ratzeburgiinae
Nomen number:

15352
Place of publication:

A. L. P. P. de Candolle & A. C. de Candolle, Monogr. phan. 6:261. 1889
Verified:
12/04/1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Ischaemum ophiuroides Munro

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishcentipede grass  1Alderson, 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
Englishlazy-man's grass  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
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Pedigree
Description:
Common centipedegrass seed was recurrently irradiated with 12 Kr Cobalt 60 gamma radiation for 3 generations beginning in 1977. In each generation 1500 plants were spaced on 0.3m centers in isolation and allowed to interpollinate.
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. CV-184, OTHER GRASSES. Issued: 01 May 1997.
  • Hanna, W. W., J. Dobson, R .R. Duncan, & D. Thompson. 1997. TifBlair centipedegrass. Crop Sci. (Madison) 37(3):1017.

U.S. Plant Variety Protection
PVP 9600255
Variety: TifBlair
Taxonomy: Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.
Experimental name/synonym: TC312
Crop: CENTIPEDEGRASS
Applicant: The United States Government as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
Date filed: 02/14/1996
Date issued: 06/14/2001
Status: Certificate Expired
Status date: 06/14/2021