View source for Paspalum urvillei

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|accepted_name=Paspalum urvillei
|accepted_authority=Steud.
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|common_names=Vaseygrass
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum urvillei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paspalum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paspalum urvillei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, with a knotty base composed of very short (less than 1 cm) rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 50-220 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1-4(7.7) mm; blades 12-60 cm long, 2-12 mm wide, flat, mostly glabrous, a few long hairs near the base of the adaxial surface. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with (4)10-30 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.2-11.5 cm, divergent; branch axes 0.5-1.1 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.8-2.8 mm long, 1.1-1.5 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to slightly obovate, stramineous (rarely purple). <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 3-veined, margins pilose; upper florets stramineous. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.2-1.7 mm, white. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;Ala.;Kans.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Ky.;Fla.;Mo.;Ark.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum urvillei</i> has been introduced to the United States from South America. In the Flora region it grows in disturbed, moist to wet areas, primarily in the southeastern United States.</p>
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name=Paspalum urvillei
|authority=Steud.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;Ala.;Kans.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Ky.;Fla.;Mo.;Ark.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum urvillei
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