Bouteloua
| Grama grass | |
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| Bouteloua curtipendula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cynodonteae |
| Subtribe: | Boutelouinae |
| Genus: | Bouteloua Lag. 1805 not Hornem. ex P. Beauv. 1812[1] |
| Type species | |
| Bouteloua racemosa Lag. | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Bouteloua is a genus of plants in the grass family.[3][4] Members of the genus are commonly known as grama grass.[5]
The genus was named for Claudio and Esteban Boutelou, 19th-century Spanish botanists.[6][7]
Species
Species of Bouteloua include:[2][5][8][9][10]
- Bouteloua alamosana Vasey - Mesoamerica
- Bouteloua americana (L.) Scribn. – American grama - southern Mexico, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
- Bouteloua annua Swallen - Baja California Sur, Sonora
- Bouteloua aristidoides (Kunth) Griseb. – needle grama - United States (California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas); Mexico, South America, Aruba
- Bouteloua bracteata (McVaugh) Columbus - Michoacán
- Bouteloua chondrosioides (Kunth) Benth. ex S.Watson – sprucetop grama - United States (AZ TX); Mesoamerica
- Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. – sideoats grama - widespread in USA, Canada, Mexico
- Bouteloua dactyloides (Nutt.) Columbus – buffalograss - USA, Canada, Mexico
- Bouteloua dimorpha Columbus - Great Plains in USA, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Cuba, Trinidad
- Bouteloua distans Swallen - Mexico
- Bouteloua disticha (Kunth) Benth. - from southern Mexico to Ecuador; also Cuba, Galápagos
- Bouteloua eludens Griffiths - USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
- Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths – blue grama - Great Plains in USA, Canada, Mexico
- Bouteloua hirsuta Lag. - USA (Great Plains, Southwest), Mexico, Guatemala
- Bouteloua johnstonii Swallen - Coahuila
- Bouteloua juncea (Desv. ex Beauv.) A.S.Hitchc. – lamilla - Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico
- Bouteloua media (E.Fourn.) Gould & Kapadia - from central Mexico to Uruguay
- Bouteloua megapotamica (Spreng.) Kuntze - Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia
- Bouteloua mexicana (Scribn.) Columbus - Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
- Bouteloua multifida (Griffiths) Columbus - from Sonora to Oaxaca
- Bouteloua nervata Swallen - Hidalgo, México State
- Bouteloua pedicellata Swallen - Puebla, Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Tlaxcala, Nuevo León, Veracruz
- Bouteloua polymorpha (E.Fourn.) Columbus - from Durango to Oaxaca
- Bouteloua purpurea Gould & Kapadia - Guanajuato, D.F., San Luis Potosí, México State, Hidalgo, Querétaro
- Bouteloua radicosa (E. Fourn.) Griffiths – purple grama - USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (Chihuahua, Michoacán, Coahuila, Morelos, Puebla, Durango, Zacatecas, Distrito Federal de México, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas)
- Bouteloua repens (Kunth) Scribn. – slender grama - USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, OK)
- Bouteloua reederorum Columbus - Durango, Puebla, Zacatecas, Oaxaca
- Bouteloua reflexa Swallen - Sonora, Sinaloa, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Nayarit
- Bouteloua repens (Kunth) Scribn. & Merr. - Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Mesoamerica, Colombia, Venezuela, West Indies
- Bouteloua rigidiseta (Steud.) Hitchc. – Texas grama - New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mexico (Aguascalientes, Durango)
- Bouteloua scabra (Kunth) Columbus - from Hidalgo to Honduras
- Bouteloua stolonifera Scribn. - San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas
- Bouteloua swallenii Columbus - from El Salvador to Venezuela
- Bouteloua triaena (Trin. ex Spreng.) Scribn. - from Sinaloa to Guatemala]
- Bouteloua uniflora Vasey – Nealley grama, oneflower grama - Utah, Texas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nuevo León, Querétaro, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas
- Bouteloua vaneedenii Pilg. - Cuba, Leeward Islands, Venezuela
- Bouteloua warnockii Gould & Kapadia – Warnock's grama - New Mexico, Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
- Bouteloua williamsii Swallen - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
Formerly included
Some grass species, formerly classified under Bouteloua, have been reclassified under other genera including:[2]
See also
- List of Poaceae genera
- Grasses of North America
- Grasses of South America
References
- 1 2 "Genus: Bouteloua Lag.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Lagasca y Segura, Mariano. 1805. Variedades de Ciencias, Literatura y Artes 2(4,21): 134
- ↑ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- 1 2 "Bouteloua". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ↑ Peterson, P. M. & Y. Herrera-Arrieta. 2001. Bouteloua. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 41: 20–33
- ↑ Gould, F. W. 1980. The genus Bouteloua (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 66(3): 348–416
- ↑ "Species Records of Bouteloua". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ↑ Gould, F. W. & R. Moran. 1981. The grasses of Baja California, Mexico. Memoir San Diego Society of Natural History 12: 1–140
External links
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