Paspalum thunbergiiKunth

Japanese paspalum

WFO wfo-1000035741 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-12 / obs. 150918244
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150918177
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150918127
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150918156
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. e Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161707109
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. f Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161707139
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. g Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161720407
Paspalum thunbergii, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. h Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161720442

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Paspalum dissectum Thunb.
  • Paspalum mollipilum Steud.
  • Paspalum scrobiculatum var. thunbergii (Kunth) Makino

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PATH6. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.