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Crop weeds of Paraguay

Paraguay, a country whose economy is based mainly on agriculture and livestock for export, has experienced a major expansion in mechanized crops during the last few decades. Despite being heavily dependent on agriculture, Paraguay has very limited research on crop weeds, in spite of these having a high economic impact on production. This work aims to update and enhance the knowledgebase on the most common weeds affecting productive fields throughout the different ecoregions of Paraguay. We present here the first checklist of crop weeds for the country, which includes a total of 256 taxa (189 species, 10 subspecies, 54 varieties and 3 forms), with the most species-rich families being Poaceae and Asteraceae followed by Malvaceae, Amaranthaceae, Fabaceae and Solanaceae. The list includes three new records for the country. Synonyms, distribution details within Paraguay, habit and a voucher specimen are provided for each taxon.

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Maria Peña Chocarro (2016). Crop weeds of Paraguay [Data set]. Natural History Museum. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060042
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Affiliation Natural History Museum
Primary contributors
Peña Chocarro, Maria ( 0000-0003-4428-268X)
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Last updated 8 April 2019
Last resource update 8 April 2019 (Crop Weeds of Paraguay)
Created 12 October 2016
License ODC-BY-1.0