PoaceaeSubfamily Bambusoideae
Tribe Bambuseae
Subfamily Bambusoideae
Tribe Oryzeae
Subfamily Chloridoideae
Tribe Chloridoid Assemblage
Subfamily Panicoideae
Tribe Andropogoneae
Subfamily Panicoideae
Tribe Maydeae
Subfamily Panicoideae
Tribe Paniceae
W/C = Wild Collected |
Stenotaphrum secundatum `Variegatum' (Walt.) O. Kuntze
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: St. Augustine Grass, Buffalo Grass
- Family: Poaceae Barnh.
- Country of Origin: trop. America
- Habitat:
- Description: [syn. S. americanum Schrank.]
Creeping, stoloniferous perennial grass; stems branching, compressed, flowering shoots 4-14 inches high; leaf blades mostly less than 6 inches long, to 3/8 inches wide; racemes 2-4 inches long; spikelets solitary or paired, rarely in threes, 0.125 - 0.25 inches long. South Carolina to Florida and Texas; Tropical America. Cultivated as a lawn grass along the coast, also in California, and escaping. Cv. 'Variegatum' [syn. S. secundatum var. variegatum A.S. Hitchc; S. americanum cv. 'Variegatum'] - Leaves striped white. cultivated as a basket plant.
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Accession Data:- Accession # 198500684
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1212 - AUS:Borneo/Sumatra C
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 09-17-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Poales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Poaceae
- SubFamily: Panicoideae
- Tribe: Paniceae
- SubTribe:
References:Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
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