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Acroceras

Acroceras is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family.

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Acroceras
Acroceras hubbardii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Boivinellinae
Genus: Acroceras
Stapf
Type species
Acroceras oryzoides
(syn of A. zizanioides)1
Stapf
Synonyms1
  • Commelinidium Stapf
  • Neohusnotia A.Camus
  • Setiacis S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin

Acroceras is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family.2345

The genus is widespread across warmer parts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, with a high amount of diversity in Madagascar.6789101112

Species1
  • Acroceras amplectens
  • Acroceras attenuatum
  • Acroceras boivinii
  • Acroceras bosseri
  • Acroceras calcicola
  • Acroceras chaseae
  • Acroceras diffusum
  • Acroceras elegans
  • Acroceras excavatum
  • Acroceras fluminense
  • Acroceras gabunense
  • Acroceras hubbardii
  • Acroceras ivohibense
  • Acroceras lateriticum
  • Acroceras macrum
  • Acroceras mandrarense
  • Acroceras manongarivense
  • Acroceras munroanum
  • Acroceras parvulum
  • Acroceras paucispicata
  • Acroceras sambiranense
  • Acroceras seyrigii
  • Acroceras tenuicaule
  • Acroceras tonkinense
  • Acroceras zizanioides
formerly included1

see Brachiaria Panicum

  • Acroceras paucispicatum - Brachiaria paucispicata
  • Acroceras pilgerianum - Panicum pilgerianum
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Stapf, Otto. 1920. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 621
  3. Tropicos, Acroceras Stapf
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Camus, A. 1946. Lepturus, Acroceras et Brachiaria nouveaux de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 93: 86–89
  6. Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  7. Chen, Shou-liang; Phillips, Sylvia M. "Acroceras". Flora of China. Vol. 22 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  8. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín
  9. Clayton, W. D. & S. A. Renvoize. 1982. Gramineae (Part 3). 451–898. In R. M. Polhill (ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam
  10. Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557.
  11. Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
  12. Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
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