Lasiorhachis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Genus: | Lasiorhachis (Hack.) Stapf [1] |
Species | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Lasiorhachis is a genus of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to Madagascar. [2] The taxon was first described as a subdivision of Andropogon by Eduard Hackel in 1889 and raised to a genus by Otto Stapf in 1927. [1]
As of September 2021 [update] , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: [2]
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Otto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He grew up in Hallstatt and later published about the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze- and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father.
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