Ortachne

Ortachne
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Ortachne
Nees ex Steud.
Type species
Ortachne retorta
(syn of O. rariflora)
Nees ex Steud.[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Parodiella Reeder & C.Reeder 1968, illegitimate homonym not Speg. 1880 (a fungus in Pyrenomycetes)[3][4]
  • Lorenzochloa Reeder & C.Reeder

Ortachne is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.[5][6][7]

Species[2][8][9]
  1. Ortachne breviseta Hitchc. - Chile, Argentina
  2. Ortachne erectifolia (Swallen) Clayton - Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
  3. Ortachne rariflora (Hook.f.) Hughes - Chile, Argentina
formerly included[2]

see Aristida

References

  1. Tropicos, Ortachne Nees ex Steud.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Spegazzini, Carlo Luigi. 1880. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 9: 178
  4. Tropicos, Parodiella Speg.
  5. Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von. 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 121 in Latin
  6. Reeder, John Raymond & Reeder, Charlotte Olive. 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 279f., f. 1A–B, D–F, 3
  7. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  8. The Plant List search for Ortachne
  9. Zuloaga, F. O., E. G. Nicora, Z. E. Rúgolo de Agrasar, O. Morrone, J. F. Pensiero & A. M. Cialdella. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 47: 1–178