Pentameris

Pentameris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Danthonioideae
Genus: Pentameris
P.Beauv.
Type species
Pentameris thuarii
P.Beauv.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Danthonia sect. Pentameris (P. Beauv.) Trin.
  • Danthonia subg. Pentameris (P. Beauv.) Nees
  • Prionanthium Desv.
  • Prionachne Nees
  • Chondrolaena Nees
  • Achneria Munro 1868, illegitimate homonym not P. Beauv. 1812
  • Pentaschistis Stapf
  • Poagrostis Stapf
  • Afrachneria Sprague

Pentameris is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Africa, with a few species in Yemen and on certain islands in the Indian Ocean.[3][4][2]

A significant number of species are endemic to South Africa.[5]

Species[1]
  1. Pentameris acinosa - South Africa
  2. Pentameris airoides - South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia
  3. Pentameris alticola - South Africa
  4. Pentameris ampla - South Africa
  5. Pentameris andringitrensis - Madagascar
  6. Pentameris argentea - South Africa
  7. Pentameris aristidoides - South Africa
  8. Pentameris aristifolia - South Africa
  9. Pentameris aspera - South Africa
  10. Pentameris aurea - South Africa, Lesotho
  11. Pentameris barbata - South Africa
  12. Pentameris basutorum - South Africa, Lesotho
  13. Pentameris borussica - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
  14. Pentameris calcicola - South Africa
  15. Pentameris capensis - South Africa
  16. Pentameris capillaris - South Africa
  17. Pentameris caulescens - South Africa
  18. Pentameris chippindalliae - Tanzania
  19. Pentameris chrysurus - Tanzania
  20. Pentameris cirrhulosa - South Africa
  21. Pentameris clavata - South Africa
  22. Pentameris colorata - South Africa
  23. Pentameris curvifolia - South Africa
  24. Pentameris densifolia - South Africa
  25. Pentameris dentata - South Africa
  26. Pentameris dolichochaeta - Ethiopia
  27. Pentameris dregeana - South Africa
  28. Pentameris ecklonii - South Africa
  29. Pentameris elegans - South Africa
  30. Pentameris ellisii - South Africa
  31. Pentameris eriostoma - South Africa
  32. Pentameris exserta - South Africa, Lesotho
  33. Pentameris galpinii - South Africa, Lesotho
  34. Pentameris glacialis - South Africa
  35. Pentameris glandulosa - South Africa
  36. Pentameris heptamera - South Africa
  37. Pentameris hirtiglumis - South Africa
  38. Pentameris holciformis - South Africa
  39. Pentameris horrida - South Africa
  40. Pentameris humbertii - Madagascar
  41. Pentameris insularis - Amsterdam I + St. Paul I (both in Indian Ocean)
  42. Pentameris lima - South Africa
  43. Pentameris longiglumis - South Africa
  44. Pentameris longipes - South Africa
  45. Pentameris macrocalycina - South Africa
  46. Pentameris malouinensis - South Africa
  47. Pentameris microphylla - South Africa
  48. Pentameris minor - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
  49. Pentameris montana - South Africa
  50. Pentameris natalensis - South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland
  51. Pentameris oreodoxa - South Africa, Lesotho
  52. Pentameris oreophila - South Africa
  53. Pentameris pallescens - South Africa
  54. Pentameris pallida - South Africa
  55. Pentameris patula - South Africa
  56. Pentameris pholiuroides - South Africa
  57. Pentameris pictigluma - Yemen, Sudan, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
  58. Pentameris praecox - Lesotho
  59. Pentameris pseudopallescens - South Africa
  60. Pentameris pungens - South Africa
  61. Pentameris pusilla - South Africa
  62. Pentameris pyrophila - South Africa
  63. Pentameris reflexa - South Africa
  64. Pentameris rigidissima - South Africa
  65. Pentameris rosea - South Africa
  66. Pentameris rupestris - South Africa
  67. Pentameris scabra - South Africa
  68. Pentameris scandens - South Africa
  69. Pentameris setifolia - South Africa, Lesotho
  70. Pentameris swartbergensis - South Africa
  71. Pentameris thuarii - South Africa
  72. Pentameris tomentella - South Africa
  73. Pentameris tortuosa - South Africa
  74. Pentameris trifida - South Africa
  75. Pentameris triseta - South Africa
  76. Pentameris trisetoides - Ethiopia
  77. Pentameris tysonii - South Africa
  78. Pentameris uniflora - South Africa
  79. Pentameris velutina - South Africa
  80. Pentameris veneta - South Africa
  81. Pentameris viscidula - South Africa
formerly included[1]

see Chaetobromus Danthonia Merxmuellera Pseudopentameris Tenaxia

  • Pentameris americana - Danthonia californica
  • Pentameris californica - Danthonia californica
  • Pentameris compressa - Danthonia compressa
  • Pentameris epilis - Danthonia sericea
  • Pentameris grandiflora - Merxmuellera grandiflora
  • Pentameris intermedia - Danthonia intermedia
  • Pentameris involucrata - Chaetobromus involucratus
  • Pentameris macrantha - Pseudopentameris macrantha
  • Pentameris obtusifolia - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia
  • Pentameris provincialis - Danthonia alpina
  • Pentameris sericea - Danthonia sericea
  • Pentameris spicata - Danthonia spicata
  • Pentameris squarrosa - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia
  • Pentameris stricta - Tenaxia stricta
  • Pentameris thermalis - Danthonia spicata
  • Pentameris unispicata - Danthonia unispicata

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Pentameris P. Beauv.
  3. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 92-93 in Latin
  4. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XVIII (18), figure VIII (8) line drawings of Pentameris thuarii
  5. ↑ Linder, Hans Peter, et al. 2010. A generic classification of the Danthionioideae (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(3): 306-364

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