Galapagos Species Database

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Paspalum redundans Chase

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Paspalum redundans has only slightly longer spikelets than the largest that are referred to as Paspalum galapageium [...] [I] do not think that this is enough for separation [of the taxa] - Simon Laegaard, 27/04/2003.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)

Order
Cyperales

Family
Poaceae

Genus
Paspalum

Species
redundans

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Status

Vulnerable

References

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  • Adsersen, H. (1989) The Rare Plants of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador and their Conservation. Biol. Conservation 47(1): 49-77.
  • Chase, A. (1929) The North American species of Paspalum. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 28(1): i–xvii, 1–310.
  • Hitchcock, A.S. (1935) New Species of Grasses from the Gálapagos and the Revillagigedo islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 21(24): 295-300.
  • 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.
  • Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
  • Porter, D.M. (1983) Vascular Plants of the Galapagos: Origins and Dispersal. In: Bowman, R.I., Berson, M. & Leviton, A.E. (eds.): Patterns of evolution in Galápagos organisms. Pacific Division, AAAS, San Francisco, California, p. 33-96.
  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • Valencia, R. Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. & Jørgensen, P.M. (2000) Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Ecuador 2000 i–iv, 1–489.
  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
  • Zuloaga, F.O. Morrone, O. (2003) Paspalum. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46: 443-527.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Paspalum redundans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=970. Accessed 30 October 2026.