Paspalum eglume Morrone & Zuloaga

Reimar Grass

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

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**It has been recently discovered the taxon known as Reimarochloa oligostachya (Munro ex Bentham) Hitchcock was nested phylogenetically inside the genus Paspalum where it was subsequently transferred but assigned a nom. nov. Paspalum eglume Morrone & Zuloaga as the previous epithet (oligostachya) was unavailable. (Scatalini et al 2014). **This species was originally reported for Alabama [as Reimarochloa oligostachya] by Kral (1973) based on his Mobile County collection (Kral #37405) which is presumably located at VDB(=BRIT). Unfortuantely, the taxon was omitted from the "The Checklist" (Kral et al 2011).--BRK

Native

***Kral, R. 1973. Some notes on the flora of the southern states, particularly Alabama and middle Tennessee. Rhodora 75: 366-410. ***Scataglini, M.A., F.O. Zuloaga, L.M. Giussani, S.S. Denham, & O. Morrone. 2014. Phylogeny of New World Paspalum (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paspaleae) based on plastid and nuclear markers. Plant Systematics and Evolution 300:1051-1070.