Craspedorhachis

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Craspedorhachis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Farragininae
Genus: Craspedorhachis
Benth.
Type species
Craspedorhachis africana

Craspedorhachis is a genus of African plants in the grass family. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Species [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
formerly included [6]

Several names have been coined with the name Craspedorhachis but refer to species now considered better suited to other genera ( Dinebra Trigonochloa and Willkommia). Here are links to help you find more information.

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<i>Tinnea</i>

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  1. Tinnea aethiopicaKotschy ex Hook.f. - widespread from Mali to Somalia south to Mozambique; naturalized in Trinidad & Tobago
  2. Tinnea antiscorbuticaWelw. - Zaïre, Zambia, Angola
  3. Tinnea apiculataRobyns & Lebrun - eastern Africa from Rwanda to Mozambique
  4. Tinnea barbataVollesen - Swaziland, northern South Africa
  5. Tinnea barteriGürke - western Africa
  6. Tinnea benguellensisGürke - Angola
  7. Tinnea coeruleaGürke - Zaïre, Zambia, Angola
  8. Tinnea eriocalyxWelw. - Zaïre, Angola, Botswana, Namibia
  9. Tinnea galpiniiBriq. - Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa
  10. Tinnea gossweileriRobyns & Lebrun - Angola
  11. Tinnea gracilisGürke - Tanzania to Zambia
  12. Tinnea mirabilis(Bullock) Vollesen - Tanzania
  13. Tinnea physalisE.A.Bruce - Tanzania
  14. Tinnea platyphyllaBriq. - Zaïre
  15. Tinnea rhodesianaS.Moore - South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Mozambique
  16. Tinnea somalensisGürke ex Chiov. - Ethiopia
  17. Tinnea vesiculosaGürke - Tanzania, Malawi
  18. Tinnea vestitaBaker - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Botswana
  19. Tinnea zambesiacaBaker - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique

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  1. Fuerstia adpressaA.J.Paton - Angola
  2. Fuerstia africanaT.C.E.Fr. - East Africa
  3. Fuerstia angustifoliaG.Taylor - Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
  4. Fuerstia bartsioides(Baker) G.Taylor - South Sudan
  5. Fuerstia dendrothrixA.J.Paton - Somalia
  6. Fuerstia raraG.Taylor - Angola
  7. Fuerstia rigida(Benth.) A.J.Paton - Angola
  8. Fuerstia ternataA.J.Paton - Tanzania
  9. Fuerstia welwitschiiG.Taylor - Angola
<i>Tetradenia</i>

Tetradenia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1830. It is native to Africa, including Madagascar.

  1. Tetradenia bainesii(N.E.Br.) Phillipson & C.F.Steyn - Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal
  2. Tetradenia barberae(N.E.Br.) Codd - Cape Province
  3. Tetradenia brevispicata(N.E.Br.) Codd - Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Transvaal
  4. Tetradenia clementianaPhillipson - Madagascar
  5. Tetradenia cordataPhillipson - Madagascar
  6. Tetradenia discolorPhillipson - Zambia, Zaire, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania
  7. Tetradenia falafaPhillipson - Madagascar
  8. Tetradenia fruticosaBenth. - Madagascar
  9. Tetradenia galpinii(N.E.Br.) Phillipson & C.F.Steyn - southeast Africa from Tanzania to Swaziland
  10. Tetradenia goudotiiBriq. - Madagascar
  11. Tetradenia herbacea Phillipson - Madagascar
  12. Tetradenia hildeanaPhillipson - Madagascar
  13. Tetradenia isaloensisPhillipson - Madagascar
  14. Tetradenia kaokoensisvan Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk - Namibia
  15. Tetradenia multiflora(Benth.) Phillipson - Ethiopia
  16. Tetradenia nervosaCodd - Madagascar
  17. Tetradenia riparia(Hochst.) Codd - southern Africa from Angola + Malawi to Swaziland
  18. Tetradenia tanganyikaePhillipson - Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia
  19. Tetradenia tuberosaT.J.Edwards - KwaZulu-Natal
  20. Tetradenia urticifolia(Baker) Phillipson - eastern + central Africa from Sudan + Eritrea south to Zaire and Tanzania

Trigonochloa is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.

References

  1. Bentham, George. 1882. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 14: page 58 descriptions in Latin, commentary and figure captions in English
  2. Bentham, George. 1882. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 14: plate 1377 line drawing of Craspedorhachis africana
  3. Tropicos, Craspedorhachis Benth.
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Peterson, P. M., K. Romaschenko & Y. Herrera Arrieta. 2014. A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Cteniinae, Farragininae, Gouiniinae, Gymnopogoninae, Perotidinae, and Trichoneurinae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 63(2): 275–286
  6. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  7. Cope, T. (1999). Flora Zambesiaca 10(2): 1-261. 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. Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
  10. Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris