Oxyrhachis

Oxyrhachis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Oxyrhachis
Pilg.
Species: O. gracillima
Binomial name
Oxyrhachis gracillima
(Baker) C.E.Hubb.
Type species
Oxyrhachis mildbraediana
Pilg.
Synonyms[1]
  • Rottboellia gracillima Baker
  • Oxyrhachis mildbraediana Pilg.
  • Oxyrhachis gracillima subsp. occidentalis Gledhill

Oxyrhachis is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[2][3] The only known species is Oxyrhachis gracillima, native to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Madagascar, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province.[1][4][5][6][7][8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Pilger, Robert Knud Friedrich 1932. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 11: 655
  3. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. ↑ Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris.
  5. ↑ Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa , ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
  6. ↑ Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  7. ↑ Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  8. ↑ Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  9. ↑ Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.


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