Megastachya

Megastachya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Megastachya
P.Beauv.
Type species
Megastachya owariensis[1][2]
(syn of M. mucronata)[3]
P.Beauv.
Synonyms[4]
  • Magastachya P.Beauv., alternate spelling
  • Eragrostis unranked Megastachya (P. Beauv.) Nees
  • Eragrostis sect. Megastachya (P. Beauv.) Benth.
  • Eragrostis ser. Megastachyae (P. Beauv.) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Eragrostis subsect. Megastachya (P. Beauv.) Benth.

Megastachya is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[5][6][7]

Species[8][3]
  1. Megastachya madagascariensis (Lam.) Chase - Madagascar
  2. Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P.Beauv. - Madagascar, South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, etc.[4][9][10]
formerly included[8]

numerous species once regarded as part of Megastachya but now considered better suited to other genera: Catapodium Desmostachya Distichlis Enteropogon Eragrostis Glyceria Halopyrum Leptochloa Poa

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Niles & Chase Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24: 182. 1925
  2. ↑ The International Plant Names Index
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. 1 2 Tropicos, Megastachya P. Beauv.
  5. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 74, 167 in Latin
  6. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XV (15), figure V (5 a-c) line drawings of Megastachya owariensis (identified on caption page 11), (syn of Megastachya mucronata)
  7. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  8. 1 2 The Plant List search for Megastachya
  9. ↑ Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557
  10. ↑ Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420
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