Colpodium

Colpodium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Colpodium
Trin.
Type species
Colpodium stevenii
(syn of C. versicolor)
Trin.[1][2][3]
Synonyms[2][4][5]
  • Keniochloa Melderis
  • Catabrosa sect. Colpodium (Trin.) Boiss.
  • Vilfa subg. Colpodium (Trin.) Trin.
  • Catabrosella (Tzvelev) Tzvelev
  • Paracolpodium (Tzvelev) Tzvelev
  • Paracol-podium (Tzvelev) Tzvelev, alternate spelling
  • Colpodium subg. Paracolpodium Tzvelev
  • Colpodium subg. Catabrosella Tzvelev

Colpodium is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Asia but with a few species on certain mountains in Africa.[6][7][4][8][9][10]

Species[5][11][12]
  1. Colpodium altaicum Trin. ex Ledeb. - Altai Mountains (Altai Krai, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Kazakhstan)
  2. Colpodium araraticum (Lipsky) Woronow ex Grossh. - Turkey, Armenia
  3. Colpodium baltistanicum Dickore - Jammu-Kashmir
  4. Colpodium chionogeiton (Pilg.) Tzvelev - Kenya, Tanzania
  5. Colpodium colchicum (Albov) Woronow ex Grossh. - Circassia, Turkey
  6. Colpodium drakensbergense Hedberg & I.Hedberg - KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho
  7. Colpodium fibrosum Trautv. - northeastern Turkey
  8. Colpodium gillettii Bor - Iraq
  9. Colpodium hedbergii (Melderis) Tzvelev - Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
  10. Colpodium himalaicum (Hook.f.) Bor - Jammu-Kashmir
  11. Colpodium humile (M.Bieb.) Griseb. - Xinjiang, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
  12. Colpodium lakium Woronow - Dagestan
  13. Colpodium lanatiflorum (Roshev.) Tzvelev - Siberia
  14. Colpodium nutans (Stapf) Bor - Uttarakhand, Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh
  15. Colpodium oreades (Peter) E.B.Alexeev - Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
  16. Colpodium parviflorum Boiss. & Buhse - Iran, Turkey, Caucasus
  17. Colpodium ponticum (Balansa) Woronow - Turkey
  18. Colpodium tibeticum Bor - Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal
  19. Colpodium variegatum (Boiss.) Boiss. ex Griseb. - Iran, Turkey
  20. Colpodium versicolor (Steven) Schmalh. - Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Caucasus
  21. Colpodium violaceum (Boiss.) Griseb. - Iran, Iraq
  22. Colpodium wallichii (Hook.f.) Bor - Nepal, Sikkim
formerly included [5]

see Arctagrostis Arctophila Catabrosa Dupontia Festuca Hyalopoa Muhlenbergia Periballia Phippsia Poa Puccinellia Pucciphippsia Sporobolus

  • Colpodium afghanicum - Festuca olgae
  • Colpodium aquaticum - Catabrosa aquatica
  • Colpodium arundinaceum - Arctagrostis arundinacea
  • Colpodium compressum - Muhlenbergia torreyana
  • Colpodium drakensbergense - Catabrosa drakensbergensis
  • Colpodium elbursense - Catabrosa aquatica
  • Colpodium filifolium - Puccinellia filifolia
  • Colpodium fulvum - Arctophila fulva
  • Colpodium ivanoviae - Hyalopoa lanatiflora
  • Colpodium junceum - Sporobolus junceus
  • Colpodium lakium - Hyalopoa lakia
  • Colpodium lanatiflorum - Hyalopoa lanatiflora
  • Colpodium langei - Dupontia fisheri
  • Colpodium latifolium - Arctagrostis latifolia
  • Colpodium malmgrenii - Arctophila fulva
  • Colpodium minutum - Periballia minuta
  • Colpodium monandrum - Phippsia algida
  • Colpodium mucronatum - Arctophila fulva
  • Colpodium nutans - Hyalopoa nutans
  • Colpodium pamiricum - Puccinellia pamirica
  • Colpodium pauciflorum - Poa glauca
  • Colpodium pendulinum - Arctophila fulva
  • Colpodium planifolium - Poa planifolia
  • Colpodium ponticum - Hyalopoa pontica
  • Colpodium pusillum - Pentameris pusilla
  • Colpodium thomsonii - Poa infirma
  • Colpodium tilesii - Arctagrostis arundinacea
  • Colpodium × vacillans - Pucciphippsia vacillans
  • Colpodium wrightii - Puccinellia wrightii

References

  1. Lectotype designated by means of exclusion of the only other possible candidate, by Griseb., in Ledeb. Fl. Rossica 4: 384. 1853
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Colpodium Trin.
  3. International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants see §10, which specifies that the lectotype of a genus name must be a name cited in the original protologue, even if that name is now considered a synonym
  4. 4.0 4.1 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 311 小沿沟草属 xiao yan gou cao shu Colpodium Trinius, Fund. Agrost. 119. 1822.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 119 in Latin
  7. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae plate 7 line drawings of floral structures of Colpodium sp.
  8. Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal , Colpodium wallichii (Hook. f.) Bor,
  9. Bor, Norman Loftus. 1960. Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae). Pergamon Press, Oxford UK.
  10. Dickoré, W. B. 1995. Systematische revision und chorologische analyse der Monocotyledoneae des Karakorum (Zentralasian, West-Tibet). Flora Karakorumensis: I. Angiospermae, Monocotyledoneae. Stapfia 39:1–290
  11. The Plant List search for Colpodium
  12. Mill, R. R. 1985. Eremopoa, Nephelochloa, Catabrosella, Colpodium, Hyalopoa, Catabrosa, Paracolpodium, In: Davis, P. H. (ed.). 9: 486–501. In P. H. Davis, Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh