Chondrosum

Chondrosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Genus: Chondrosum
Desv.
Type species
Chondrosum procumbens
(P.Durand) Desv.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Erucaria Cerv. 1870. illegitimate homonym not Gaertn. 1791 (Brassicaceae)
  • Actinochloa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Bouteloua sect. Chondrosum (Desv.) Benth. & Hook. f.
  • Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) A. Gray
  • Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) Gould

Chondrosum is a genus of North American and South American plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Chondrosum is closely related to Bouteloua and considered part of that genus in some publications.[2]

Species[1][5][6][7]
  1. Chondrosum barbatum (Lag.) Clayton - USA (CA AZ NM TX OK KS CO UT NV MT), Mexico, Argentina
  2. Chondrosum brevisetum (Vasey) Clayton - USA (NM TX), widespread in Mexico
  3. Chondrosum chasei (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí)
  4. Chondrosum elatum (Reeder & C.Reeder) Clayton - Mexico (Colima, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit), Guatemala
  5. Chondrosum eriopodum Torr. - USA (CA AZ NM TX OK KS CO UT NV), Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
  6. Chondrosum eriostachyum (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila)
  7. Chondrosum gracile Kunth - widespread in Canada, USA, Mexico; naturalized in China, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia
  8. Chondrosum hirsutum (Lag.) Sweet - widespread in USA + Mexico + Guatemala
  9. Chondrosum karwinskyi E.Fourn. ex Hemsl. Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
  10. Chondrosum kayi (Warnock) Clayton - Big Bend region of Texas
  11. Chondrosum parryi E.Fourn. - USA (AZ NM TX), Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa)
  12. Chondrosum pectinatum (Feath.) Clayton USA (TX OK)
  13. Chondrosum scorpioides (Lag.) Kunth - northern + central Mexico
  14. Chondrosum simplex (Lag.) Kunth - USA (AZ NM TX NV UT CO KS NE WY), Mesoamerica, South America
  15. Chondrosum trifidum (Thurb.) Clayton - USA (CA AZ NM TX NV UT), northern Mexico
formerly included[1]

species now considered better suited to other genera: Bouteloua Chloris

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Chondrosum Desv.
  3. ↑ Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin. 1810. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 2: 188
  4. ↑ Clayton, W. D. 1982. Notes on subfamily Chloridoideae (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 37(3): 417–420
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Chondrosum
  6. ↑ Pohl, R. W. 1994. 99. Chondrosum Desv. 6: 292–293. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..
  7. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, genus Bouteloua