Taxon: Polytrias indica (Houtt.) Veldkamp

Genus:

Polytrias

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Saccharinae

Nomen number:

409691

Place of publication:

Blumea 36:180. 1991

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

18-dic-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 18-dic-1997

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(≡) Andropogon amaurus Büse
(=) Andropogon diversiflorus Steud.
Basionym: Phleum indicum Houtt.
(=) Pollinia praemorsa Nees
(≡) Polytrias amaura Kuntze
(=) Polytrias diversiflora (Steud.) Nash
(=) Polytrias praemorsa (Nees) Hack.

Common names:

Java grass (Source: F NAmer) - English

Economic Importance:

Environmental: lawn/turf (for lawns in the tropics fide Grass BCIP, as P. amaura; F NAmer, as P. amaura)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Reference:

FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)

Check other web resources for Polytrias indica (Houtt.) Veldkamp :

TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=409691. Accessed 3 junio 2026.