Cottea

Cottea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Cottea
Kunth[1]
Species: C. pappophoroides
Binomial name
Cottea pappophoroides
Kunth

Cottea is a genus of American plants in the grass family native to North and South America. There is only one known species, Cottea pappophoroides, native to the southwestern United States (southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Texas), Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. [2][3][4][5] (The name Cottea sarmentosa was coined in 1854 for a species now known as Enneapogon desvauxii.[4])

References

  1. ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1829. Révision des Graminées 1: 84 in Latin
  2. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
  3. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Cottea


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