Zoysia
EOL Text
Culm slender, tufted, with long creeping stolon. Blade linear, needle-like, 2-3 mm long by 1-2 mm wide; sheath-mouth densely covered with long silky hairs; ligule about 0.2 mm long, upper part a fringe of hairs, backside ciliate. Inflorescence a terminal single raceme, about 2 cm long. Spikelets 1-flowered, 2-3 mm long; upper glume coriaceous, 5-7-nerved, ovate, bilaterally compressed, margins membranous, slightly inrolled, as long as the spikelet, minutely hispid on backside; lemma lanceolate, boat-shaped, 1-nerved, membranous, about 2 mm long. Both palea and lodicules reduced.
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Zoysia koreana Mez; Z. matrella (Linnaeus) Merrill subsp. japonica (Steudel) Masamune & Yanagita; Z. matrella var. japonica (Steudel) Sasaki; Z. pungens Willdenow var. japonica (Steudel) Hackel.
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Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr. var. japonica (Steud.) Sasaki, List Pl. Form. 80. 1928; Masamune & Yanagihara in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Form. 31: 327. 1941.
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Type fragment for Zoysia koreana Mez
Catalog Number: US 1127204
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): V. Komarov
Locality: Flusse Jalu. [Yalu River], North Korea, Asia-Temperate
- Type fragment: Mez, C. C. 1921. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 146.
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Coastal areas, grassy hillsides, open places. Hebei, Hong Kong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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This species can be distinguished by its relatively short, broad leaf blades, broadly linear inflorescence well exserted above the leaves, and many short, plump spikelets on long, slender pedicels.
This species is a good lawn grass.
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