Puelia

Puelia
Puelia ciliata and Puelia olyriformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Atractocarpeae
Genus: Puelia
Franch.
Type species
Puelia ciliata
Franch.
Synonyms[1]

Atractocarpa Franch.

Puelia is a genus of African grasses, the only genus in the tribe Atractocarpeae (syn. Puelieae).[2][3] It belongs to the subfamily Puelioideae, one of the early-diverging lineages in the grasses, but used to be considered a bamboo genus.[4]

Species[1]
  1. Puelia ciliata Franch. - Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Gabon, São Tomé, Bioko
  2. Puelia coriacea Clayton - Zaïre
  3. Puelia dewevrei De Wild. & T.Durand - Zaïre, Republic of Congo, Gabon
  4. Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) Clayton - Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Tanzania
  5. Puelia schumanniana Pilg. - Cameroon
formerly included

see Guaduella

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Franchet, Adrien René. 1887. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris 1: 674-675 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Puelia Franch.
  4. ↑ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Judziewicz, Emmet J.; Filgueiras, Tarciso S.; Davis, Jerrold I.; Morrone, Osvaldo (2015). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)". Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 (2): 117–137. doi:10.1111/jse.12150. ISSN 1674-4918.
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External links

Clayton, W.D.; Vorontsova, M.S.; Harman, K.T.; Williamson, H. "Puelia". GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2015-12-20. 


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