Paspalidium

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Italic title}} [[File:Paspailidium distans.jpg|thumb|''Setaria distans'', syn. ''Paspalidium distans'']] '''''Paspalidium''''' '''(watercrown grass)''' is a formerly accepted genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family.<ref>Stapf, Otto. 1920. In Prain, David, Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 582-583</ref><ref name=v>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40002237?tab=subordinatetaxa Tropicos, ''Paspalidium'' Stapf ]</ref><ref>[http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/paspalidium-1 Ausgrass2, Grasses of Australia]</ref> {{As of|2024|June}}, Plants of the World Online treated it as a synonym of ''Setaria''.<ref name=POWO_30147863-2>{{Cite POWO|title=''Paspalidium'' Stapf|id=30147863-2|access-date=2024-06-07|mode=cs1}}</ref>

The genus included about 40 species of annuals and perennials native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=124123 Flora of China FOC Vol. 22 Page 537 <big>类雀稗属</big> lei que bai shu ''Paspalidium'' Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa. 9: 582. 1920. ]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=124123 Flora of Pakistan]</ref><ref>[http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:413074#tab_classification Atlas of Living Australia, ''Paspalidium'' Stapf, Watercrown Grass]</ref><ref name=gm>Allen, C. M. [http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Paspalidium&type=treatment ''Paspalidium''.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219201500/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Paspalidium&type=treatment |date=2015-02-19 }} Grass Manual. Flora of North America.</ref><ref name=nsw>[http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Paspalidium ''Paspalidium''.] New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium of New South Wales. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.</ref>

==Selected former species== * ''Paspalidium basicladum'' = ''Setaria basiclada'' * ''Paspalidium caespitosum'' = ''Setaria brigalow'' (brigalow grass) * ''Paspalidium distans'' = ''Setaria distans'' * ''Paspalidium inaequale'' = ''Holcolemma dispar'' * ''Paspalidium punctatum'' var. ''longiglume'' - ''Setaria media'' * ''Paspalidium semitonsum'' - ''Whiteochloa semitonsa''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00461.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

Category:Poaceae genera Category:Panicoideae Category:Historically recognized angiosperm genera