Pharus (genus)

Pharus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Pharus
P.Browne[1]
Type species
Pharus latifolius
L.[2]

Pharus is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Species[5][6][7][8]
  1. Pharus ecuadoricus Judz. - Ecuador
  2. Pharus lappulaceus Aubl. - Americas from Florida + San Luis Potosí to Uruguay
  3. Pharus latifolius L. - Americas from Cuba + Veracruz to Bolivia
  4. Pharus mezii Prodoehl - southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
  5. Pharus parvifolius Nash - southern Mexico, Central America, northern South America, West Indies
  6. Pharus virescens Döll - Central America, northern South America
  7. Pharus vittatus Lem. - Central America, Colombia
formerly included[5]

see Hygroryza Leersia Leptaspis Scrotochloa

References

  1. ↑ Browne, Patrick 1756. Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts, page 344 description in Latin, commentary in English
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Pharus P.Browne
  3. ↑ Emmet J. Judziewicz & Lynn G. Clark (2007). "Classification and biogeography of New World grasses: Anomochlooideae, Pharoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Bambusoideae". Aliso 23: 303–314.
  4. ↑ Judziewicz, E. J. 1994. 22. Pharus P. Browne. 6: 218–220. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ↑ The Plant List search for Pharus
  7. ↑ Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  8. ↑ Catasus Guerra, L. 1997. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, I. Fontqueria 46: [i–ii], 1–259.