What is "zoysia matrella"

manila grass \manila grass\ n. A lawn grass ( Zoysia matrella) common in the Philippines; grown also in US.

Syn: Japanese carpet grass.

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 Korean grass, Manila templegrass, siglap grass (after an area in Singapore), temple grass, Mascarene 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).