Rhytachne

Rhytachne
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Genus: Rhytachne
Desv. ex Ham.
Type species
Rhytachne rottboellioides
Desv.
Synonyms[1]

Lepturopsis Steud.

Rhytachne is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3] They grow principally in wet savannahs in Africa and the Americas. More specifically, they tend to prefer transitional zones between marshes and drier upland savannahs. In the Americas the genus can be found from southern Mexico and Cuba south to northern Argentina, while in Africa it is present below the Sahara, including in Madagascar. Twelve species are included, of which nine are African, two are American, and one, Rhytachne subgibbosa, is found on both continents.[4][5] The genus is closely related to Coelorachis.[6][7]

Species[1][8][9][10][11][12]
  1. Rhytachne furtiva Clayton - Ghana, Burkina Faso
  2. Rhytachne glabra (Gledhill) Clayton - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast
  3. Rhytachne gonzalezii Davidse - Suriname, Venezuela (Guárico, Apure), Brazil (Pará)
  4. Rhytachne gracilis Stapf - West Africa from Senegal to Cameroon
  5. Rhytachne guianensis (Hitchc.) Clayton - Mexico (Tabasco), Venezuela (Guárico, Apure, Amazonas, Bolívar), Guyana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapá, Minas Gerais)
  6. Rhytachne latifolia Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia
  7. Rhytachne megastachya Jacq.-Fél. Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
  8. Rhytachne perfecta Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea
  9. Rhytachne robusta Stapf - Zambia, Angola, Namibia
  10. Rhytachne rottboellioides Desv. ex Ham. - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa
  11. Rhytachne subgibbosa (Winkler ex Hack.) Clayton - Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico; Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Zambia
  12. Rhytachne triaristata (Steud.) Stapf - tropical Africa


formerly included[1]

see Loxodera Phacelurus Thelepogon Urelytrum

  • Rhytachne anisonodis - Phacelurus trichophyllus
  • Rhytachne bovonei - Loxodera bovonei
  • Rhytachne congoensis - Phacelurus gabonensis
  • Rhytachne gabonensis - Phacelurus gabonensis
  • Rhytachne gigantea - Urelytrum giganteum
  • Rhytachne lijiangensis - Phacelurus trichophyllus
  • Rhytachne pilosa - Loxodera bovonei
  • Rhytachne princeps - Thelepogon elegans

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Hamilton, William. 1825. Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis xiv, 11-12 in Latin
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Rhytachne Desv. ex Ham.
  4. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ↑ Davidse, Gerrit (1984), "A New Species of Rhytachne (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) from Northern South America", Brittonia 36 (4): 402–405, doi:10.2307/2806601
  6. ↑ Clayton, W.D. (1978), "The Genus Rhytachne (Graminieae)", Kew Bulletin 32 (4): 767–771, doi:10.2307/4109770
  7. ↑ Clayton, W. D. 1978. The genus Rhytachne (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 32(4): 767–771
  8. ↑ The Plant List Search for Rhytachne
  9. ↑ Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  10. ↑ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela
  11. ↑ Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247
  12. ↑ Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México D.F..
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