Schismus

Schismus
Schismus barbatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Danthonioideae
Genus: Schismus
P.Beauv.
Type species
Schismus marginatus
(syn of S. barbatus)[1]
P.Beauv.
Synonyms[1]
  • Electra Panz. 1813, illegitimate homonym not Noronha 1790 (Sapindaceae) nor DC. 1836 (Asteraceae)
  • Hemisacris Steud.

Schismus is a genus of African and Eurasian plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5] Two species are naturalized in North America, where they are known as Mediterranean grass.[6]

Species[1]
  1. Schismus arabicus - Greece, North Africa, East Africa, Asia (from Saudi Arabia to Xinjiang); naturalized in scattered locations in Australia, USA, Mexico, Chile, Argentina
  2. Schismus barbatus - Mediterranean and neighboring regions (from Canary Islands to Tibet); South Africa; naturalized in scattered locations in Australia, USA, Mexico, Chile, Argentina
  3. Schismus inermis - South Africa
  4. Schismus scaberrimus - South Africa
  5. Schismus schismoides - South Africa, Namibia
formerly included[1]

see Deschampsia Disakisperma Tribolium

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 73-74 in Latin
  3. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XV (15), figure IV (4) line drawings of Schismus barbatus
  4. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 452 齿稃草属 chi fu cao shu Schismus P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 73. 1812.
  6. ↑ "Schismus". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 6 November 2015.


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