Technical Abstract: ‘Aloha’ (Reg. No. ________; PI 652948) seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum O. Swartz) was developed at the Everglades Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, and jointly released by the Florida and Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Stations. It was initially approved for release in early 2005 and a plant patent was submitted in late 2005. This variety of seashore paspalum was selected as an open pollinated progeny derived from naturalized local land races growing on the island of Hawaii, and was tested in southern Florida under the coded breeding line number H99-47. Aloha was selected for improved agronomic, horticultural, and host plant resistance traits including a faster rate of crop establishment and ground coverage, darker and deeper green leaf color, and superior resistance to the greenbug aphid (Schizaphis graminum Rondani) (Homoptera:Aphididae). Agronomically, Aloha attained 50% plot coverage in less than four months while the standards took, on average, more than five months. The leaf color of Aloha was a darker green and had a deeper hue than the standard varieties, while the greenbug aphids took longer to reach reproductive maturity, had a shorter lifespan and produced fewer offspring when cultured on Aloha. Aloha also exhibited a morphology distinct from the standards for a set of measured inflorescence and vegetative traits.