Details for: MIA 35920, Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L., St. Lucie Germplasm

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Top Name:

St. Lucie Germplasm

Origin:

Collected – Florida, United States

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami

Received by NPGS:

15 Dec 2004

Improvement Status:

Clone

Form Received:

Rhizome

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Rhizome	5 count		MIA 35920 PL

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Top Name:

St. Lucie Germplasm

Origin:

Collected – Florida, United States

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami

Received by NPGS:

15 Dec 2004

Improvement Status:

Clone

Form Received:

Rhizome

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Collected

28 March 1990.
Florida, United States
Locality: Highway 712, 2 miles east of junction with US-1 in St. Lucie County, Florida.
Coordinates: 27.4167, -80.3333 (Map it)
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by unknown method
Environment description: Native stand growing within few 100 ft of Indian River on poorly drained, nearly level, sandy soils.

Collector(s):

Donated

09 December 2004.
Florida, United States

Donor(s):

Gonter, Mary Anne, USDA, National Resources Conservation Service

Accession Names and Identifiers

St. Lucie Germplasm

Type: Donor identifier

NRCS 9059278

Type: Donor identifier

MIA 35920

Type: Site identifier

Narrative

General collection site information: Water table varies from 10-40 inches. Climate is warm and humid in summer with mild winters. Total rainfall averages 55 inches. Average number of days with temperatures of 90 degrees or higher is 39; lower than 32 degrees is 1. Daily average temperature is 73.8 degrees.

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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