Melinis

Melinis
Melinis repens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Melinis
P.Beauv.
Type species
Melinis minutiflora
P.Beauv.
Synonyms[1]
  • Mildbraediochloa Butzin
  • Monachyron Parl. ex Hook.
  • Rhynchelytrum Nees
  • Suardia Schrank
  • Tristegis Nees

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

The generic name is derived from the Greek meline meaning "millet".[5]

Species[1][6]
  1. Melinis ambigua
  2. Melinis amethystea
  3. Melinis angolensis
  4. Melinis ascendens
  5. Melinis biaristata
  6. Melinis drakensbergensis
  7. Melinis effusa
  8. Melinis gossweileri
  9. Melinis kallimorpha
  10. Melinis longiseta
  11. Melinis macrochaeta
  12. Melinis minutiflora
  13. Melinis nerviglumis
  14. Melinis repens
  15. Melinis reynaudioides
  16. Melinis rupicola
  17. Melinis scabrida
  18. Melinis subglabra
  19. Melinis tanatricha
  20. Melinis tenuissima
  21. Melinis tomentosa
  22. Melinis welwitschii
formerly included[1]

numerous species now regarded as better suited to Tricholaena

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 54 description in Latin, commentary in French
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Melinis P. Beauv.
  5. ↑ Quattrocchi U. (2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology 1. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 1275. ISBN 978-0-8493-1303-5.
  6. ↑ The Plant List search for Melinis
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 09, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.