Characteristics
Monocots
Triplasis purpurea (Walter)Chapm.
PURPLE SANDGRASS
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Native
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Classification
POALES
Triplasis purpurea (Walter)Chapm. - PURPLE SANDGRASS
Citation
TRIPLASIS PURPUREA (Walter) Chapman, Fl. South. U.S. 560. 1860.
Aira purpurea Walter 1788.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Georgetown Co.: South Island, 1 Aug 1939, Godfrey & Tryon 1570 (neotype: GH; isoneotypes: BH, CA, CAS, DUKE, F, MO, PH, US). Neotypified by D. B. Ward, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1093. 2007.
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