{"id":1377593,"date":"2013-04-14T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:08:22","slug":"zoysia-pacifica","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/zoysia-pacifica\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoysia pacifica (Introduced)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zoysia<\/i> pacifica<\/i> (Goudsw.) M.Hotta & Kuroki, Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 45: 71 (1994) (syn: Zoysia matrella<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0pacifica<\/em>\u00a0Goudsw.<\/a>);\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIndo-China to Japan (Kyushu) and NW. Pacific: Japan, Kazan-retto, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Solomon Is., Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam;<\/span> Introduced into: Bahamas, Benin, Burkina, Cayman Is., Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Gabon, Gal\u00e1pagos, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Mexico Northeast, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Tuamotu, West Himalaya<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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Manila grass is grown as an ornamental grass<\/span><\/a>, and is used for <\/span>turf<\/span><\/a> on <\/span>golf courses<\/span><\/a> in <\/span>Asia<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Europe<\/span><\/a> and the Americas, as a <\/span>lawn<\/span><\/a> grass in the <\/span>United States<\/span><\/a> especially in the South, and is planted for grazing stock among the trees on tropical <\/span>coconut<\/span><\/a> plantations. In addition to its ability to grow on sandy soils, it tolerates high salinity, making it ideal for erosion control and lawns in <\/span>coastal<\/span><\/a> areas.<\/span>
\nOther common names include <\/span>Korean grass<\/b>, <\/span>Manila templegrass<\/b>, <\/span>siglap grass<\/b> (after an area in Singapore), <\/span>temple grass<\/b>, <\/span>Mascarene grass<\/b>, <\/span>harishiba<\/b>, <\/span>hierba Manila<\/b> (<\/span>Spanish<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>Japanese carpet<\/b>, <\/span>jukut kakawatan hijau<\/b> (<\/span>Sundanese<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>rebha sekem-sekeman<\/b> (<\/span>Madurese<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>burikit<\/b> (on <\/span>Seram<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>rumput siglap<\/b> (<\/span>Malay<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>damong-alat<\/b>, <\/span>barit-baritan<\/b> (<\/span>Tagalog<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>malakuwerdas<\/b> (<\/span>Pangasinan<\/span><\/a>), <\/span>ya-nuannoi<\/b> (Thai).<\/span>[3]<\/span><\/span><\/a>
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\nZoysia pacifica<\/span><\/i><\/span> (Poaceae<\/i>) is<\/span> imported lawn grass used for making good quality lawns<\/span>. Here<\/span> in Pantnagar<\/span> it produces flowers in autumn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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POWO<\/a> \u00a0The Plant List<\/a> \u00a0GRIN<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 RBG Kew: GrassBase – Zoysia pacifica<\/b> Description<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zoysia pacifica (Goudsw.) M.Hotta & Kuroki, Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 45: 71 (1994) (syn: Zoysia matrella\u00a0var.\u00a0pacifica\u00a0Goudsw.);\u00a0 . Indo-China to Japan (Kyushu) and NW. Pacific: Japan, Kazan-retto, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Solomon Is., Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; Introduced into: Bahamas, Benin, Burkina, Cayman Is., Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8211],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1377593","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-zoysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1377593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1377593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1377593"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1377593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}