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Zoysia matrella
| Zoysia matrella | |
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| at Peradeniya Botanical Garden | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Genus: | Zoysia |
| Species: | Z. matrella
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| Binomial name | |
| Zoysia matrella | |
| Synonyms | |
Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr., commonly known as Manila grass, is a species of mat-forming, perennial grass native to temperate coastal southeastern Asia and northern Australasia, from southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Taiwan, and southern China (Guangdong, Hainan) south through Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Australia (northeast Queensland), and west to the Cocos Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean.
Other common names include Manila templegrass, siglap grass (after an area in Singapore), temple grass, harishiba, hierba Manila (Spanish), Japanese carpet, jukut kakawatan hijau (Sundanese), rebha sekem-sekeman (Madurese), burikit (on Seram), rumput siglap (Malay), damong-alat, barit-baritan (Tagalog), malakuwerdas (Pangasinan), ya-nuannoi (Thai).[3]
- ^ Agrostis matrella L, the basionym of Zoysia matrella, was originally published and described in Mantissa Plantarum Altera. Generum editionis VI & specierum editionis II. Holmiae (Stockholm) 185. 1771 "Plant Name Details for Agrostis matrella". IPNI. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
Malabar, India (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
- ^ "www.fao.org". Archived from the original on 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
- ^ "FAO Grassland Species Profiles". Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
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