Lachnagrostis

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Lachnagrostis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Poodae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Agrostidinae
Genus: Lachnagrostis
Trin. [1]
Type species
Lachnagrostis filiformis
Synonyms [3]
  • Agrostis sect. Lachnagrostis(Trin.) E. Desv.

Lachnagrostis is a genus of African, Australian, Pacific Island, and South American plants in the grass family. [4] They are often treated as members of genus Agrostis .

Species [5] [6] [7]
formerly included

see Agrostis Calamagrostis Gastridium Triplachne

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References

  1. ↑ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 128, plate 10
  2. ↑ lectotype designated by Zotov, Records Dom. Mus. 5(15): 142-143 (1965)
  3. 1 2 Tropicos, Lachnagrostis Trin.
  4. ↑ "The genus Lachnagrostis (Gramineae) in Australia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
  5. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ↑ Edgar, E. 1995. New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P. Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Gramineae: Aveneae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 1–33
  7. ↑ Rúgolo de Agrasar, Z. & A. M. Molina. 2002. El género Lachnagrostis (Gramineae: Agrostideae) en América del Sur. 20–32. In La Botánica en el Nuevo Milenio: Memorias del Tercer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Botánica. FUNBOTANICA, Quito


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