Pseudechinolaena

Pseudechinolaena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Pseudechinolaena
(Hook.f.) Stapf
Type species
Panicum uncinatum
Raddi
Synonyms[1]
  • Panicum sect. Pseudechinolaena Hook.f.[2]
  • Perulifera A.Camus
  • Loxostachys Peter

Pseudechinolaena is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, all but one species endemic to Madagascar.[3][4][5][6]

Species[2][7]
  1. Pseudechinolaena camusiana Bosser - Madagascar
  2. Pseudechinolaena madagascariensis (A.Camus) Bosser - Madagascar
  3. Pseudechinolaena moratii Bosser - Madagascar
  4. Pseudechinolaena perrieri A.Camus - Madagascar
  5. Pseudechinolaena polystachya (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Stapf - tropical - southern Africa, Asia (China, Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia), New Guinea, Latin America (from central Mexico to Uruguay)
  6. Pseudechinolaena tenuis Bosser - Madagascar
formerly included[2]

see Echinochloa


References

  1. ↑ Tropicos, Pseudechinolaena Stapf
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Stapf, Otto. 1919. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 494
  4. ↑ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1897. Flora of British India 7(21): 28, 58
  5. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  6. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500 钩毛草属 gou mao cao shu Pseudechinolaena Stapf, Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa. 9: 494. 1919.
  7. ↑ The Plant List search for Pseudechinolaena