Ctenium

Ctenium
Ctenium aromaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Ctenium
Panz. 1813 not C.E.O. Jensen 1923[1]
Type species
Ctenium carolinianum
(syn of C. aromaticum)[2][3]
Panz.
Synonyms[3]
  • Campulosus Desv.
  • Campuloa Desv.
  • Monocera Elliott
  • Triatherus Raf.
  • Monathera Raf.
  • Aplocera Raf.

Ctenium is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family.[4][5]

Species[3][6]
  1. Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood - USA from Texas to New Jersey
  2. Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner - Bahia
  3. Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Paraguay
  4. Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm. - Brazil
  5. Ctenium canescens Benth. West Africa
  6. Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll - Brazil
  7. Ctenium cirrhosum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Suriname
  8. Ctenium concinnum Nees - Africa incl Madagascar
  9. Ctenium concissum Swallen - Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia
  10. Ctenium crista-castrensis (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen - USA, Canada
  11. Ctenium elegans Kunth - Africa
  12. Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc. - Georgia, Florida
  13. Ctenium ledermannii Pilg. - central Africa
  14. Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope - Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia
  15. Ctenium newtonii Hack. - Africa
  16. Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth - central + southern Mexico
  17. Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen - western Mexico
  18. Ctenium polystachyum Balansa - Brazil, Paraguay
  19. Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton - Guinea, Liberia
  20. Ctenium villosum Berhaut - West Africa


formerly included

see Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon

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