Kerriochloa

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Kerriochloa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Ischaeminae
Genus: Kerriochloa
C.E.Hubb. [1]
Species:
K. siamensis
Binomial name
Kerriochloa siamensis
Synonyms [2] [3] [4]
  • Ischaemum siamense(C.E.Hubb.) Roberty
  • Kerriochloa siamensis var. dalatensisA.Camus
  • Kerriochloa siamensis var. sabulicolaA.Camus

Kerriochloa is a genus of Southeast Asian plants in the grass family. [5] The only known species is Kerriochloa siamensis, native to Thailand and Vietnam. [2] [6]

The genus name of Kerriochloa is in honour of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish medical doctor. [7] The Latin specific epithet of siamensis means coming from Siam (the old name for Thailand. [8] Both genus and species were first described and published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. Vol.35 on table 3494 in 1950. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Hubbard, Charles Edward 1951. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 35: plate 3494.
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Tropicos search for Kerriochloa
  4. ↑ Camus, Aimée Antoinette 1957. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, séries. 2, vol 29: page 189
  5. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  6. 1 2 "Kerriochloa siamensis C.E.Hubb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  7. ↑ 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 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   978-1845337315.
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