Acostia

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Acostia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Paspaleae
Subtribe: Paspalinae
Genus: Acostia
Swallen
Species:
A. gracilis
Binomial name
Acostia gracilis
Synonyms [1]
  • Panicum acostiaR.D.Webster

Acostia is a genus of South American plants in the grass family. [2] [3] [4] [5]

The only known species is Acostia gracilis, found only in Ecuador. [1] [6] It is listed as an endangered species. [7]

The genus name of Acostia is in honour of Misael Acosta Solís (1910–1994), an Ecuadorian naturalist. [8] The Latin specific epithet of gracilis means "slender". [9] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.12 on page 109 in 1968. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 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 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  3. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. ↑ Swallen, Jason Richard 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 109
  5. ↑ Webster, R. D., J. H. Kirkbride & J. V. Reyna. 1989. New World genera of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Sida 13(4): 393–417
  6. 1 2 "Acostia Swallen | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Laegaard, S. & Pitman, N. 2004. Panicum acostia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
  8. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   978-1845337315.


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