Grass week: Paspalum paspalodes from Kashmir

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Gurcharan Singh

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Dec 9, 2010, 3:41:37 PM12/9/10
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Paspalum paspalodes (Michx.) Scribner in Mem. Torrey Bot. Club. 5:29. 1894. (syn: P. distichum auct. (non L.)

Common in moist places in Kashmir, often on borders of fields and drains. Photographed from Kashmir in June, 2010

For interesting information on nomenclature see:


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Pankaj Kumar

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Dec 10, 2010, 9:45:54 AM12/10/10
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Paspalum paspalodes (Michx.) Scribn. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 29. 1894.

Basionym: Digitaria paspalodes Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. (Michaux) 1: 46. 1803

Please note the spelling is paspaloides in Memoirs of the Torrey
Botanical Club Journal.

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Pankaj Kumar

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Dec 10, 2010, 9:47:03 AM12/10/10
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The other protologue attached.
Pankaj
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