Lintonia

Lintonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Lintonia
Stapf
Type species
Lintonia nutans
Stapf
Synonyms[1]
  • Negria Chiov. 1912, illegitimate homonym, not F. Muell. 1871 (Gesneriaceae)
  • Joannegria Chiov.

Lintonia is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Species[1][5]
  1. Lintonia brizoides (Chiov.) C.E.Hubb. - Kenya, Ethiopia
  2. Lintonia nutans Stapf - Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Stapf, Otto. 1913. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 30: plate 2949 line drawing of Lintonia nutans; following 2 pages have description in Latin plus commentary in English
  3. Tropicos, Lintonia Stapf mistakenly gives place of first publication as plate 2944 instead of plate 2949
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. The Plant List search for Lintonia
  6. Sanbi Red List of South African Plants