Loudetia | |
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Type specimen of Loudetia simplex | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Tribe: | Tristachyideae |
Genus: | Loudetia Hochst. ex Steud. 1854, conserved name not Hochst. ex A. Braun 1841 |
Type species | |
Loudetia elegans Hochst. ex A. Braun. [1] |
Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya
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Loudetia simplex is a grass species found in tropical and Southern Africa and Madagascar. It was originally described as a Tristachya species by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1841 and was transferred to Loudetia by Charles Edward Hubbard in 1934.