Echinolaena

Echinolaena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Echinolaena
Desv.
Type species
Echinolaena hirta
(syn of E. inflexa
Desv.
Synonyms[1][2]

Echinolaena is a genus of plants in the grass family, native mostly to the New World tropics but with one species in Madagascar.[3][4]


Species[1][5][6]
  1. Echinolaena ecuadoriana - Ecuador
  2. Echinolaena gracilis - from Yucatán to Bolivia
  3. Echinolaena inflexa - Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Goiás, D.F., São Paulo, Maranhão
  4. Echinolaena madagascariensis - Madagascar
  5. Echinolaena minarum - Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, northern Argentina
  6. Echinolaena oplismenoides - Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana
  7. Echinolaena standelyi - Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize
formerly included[1]

see Ichnanthus Panicum Pseudechinolaena

  • Echinolaena boiviniana - Panicum egregium
  • Echinolaena brachystachya - Panicum brachystachyum
  • Echinolaena loliacea - Ichnanthus hirtus
  • Echinolaena navicularis - Ichnanthus glaber
  • Echinolaena nemorosa - Ichnanthus nemorosus
  • Echinolaena polystachya - Pseudechinolaena polystachya
  • Echinolaena procurrens - Ichnanthus procurrens
  • Echinolaena trinii - Pseudechinolaena polystachya

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Echinolaena Desv.
  3. ↑ Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin 1813. Journal de Botanique, Appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts 1: 75 in Latin
  4. ↑ Tarciso S. Filgueiras (1994). "A new species of Echinolaena (Poaceae: Paniceae) from Ecuador and a key to the New World species of the genus". Nordic Journal of Botany 14 (4): 379–381. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.1994.tb00621.x.
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Echinolaena
  6. ↑ Davidse, G. & R. W. Pohl. 1994. 112. Echinolaena Desv. 6: 302. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..
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