Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eragrostis mexicana
zacate casamiento, bayal, avenilla,, Mexican lovegrass
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Eragrostis
Species
mexicana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Poa mexicana Hornem.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Reeder, J.R. Reeder, C.G. (1971) Gramineae. Grass family. in Flora of the Galápagos Islands. 823–892.
- Swallen, J.R. (1955) Gramineae. In: P. C. Standley & J. A. Steyermark (eds.), Flora of Guatemala—Part II. Fieldiana, Bot. 24(2): i–ix, 1–390.
- McVaugh, R. (1983) Gramineae. Fl. Novo-Galiciana 14: 1–436.
- Pohl, R.W. (1980) Family 15. Gramineae. In: W. C. Burger, (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Bot., n.s. 4: 1–608.
- Tovar, Ó. (1993) Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13: 1–480.
- Quintana, M.C. (2010) Wild plants in the dry valleys around Quito-Ecuador. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, PUCE. Quito-Ecuador, 266 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Eragrostis mexicana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=942. Accessed 13 June 2025.