Ortachne

Ortachne
Ortachne from Plate CXXXI of Hooker's Flora Anatarctica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Supertribe:	Stipodae
Tribe:	Stipeae
Genus:	Ortachne Nees ex Steud.
Type species
Ortachne retorta (syn of O. rariflora) Nees ex Steud. [1]
Synonyms [2]
ParodiellaReeder & C.Reeder 1968, illegitimate homonym not Speg. 1880 (a fungus in Pyrenomycetes) [3] [4]

Ortachne is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Species ^{[2] [8] [9]}

• Ortachne breviseta Hitchc. - Chile, Argentina

• Ortachne rariflora (Hook.f.) Hughes - Chile, Argentina

formerly included ^[2]

see Aristida

• Ortachne floridana - Aristida floridana
• Ortachne pilosa - Aristida jorullensis
• Ortachne scabra - Aristida ternipes
• Ortachne tenuis - Aristida ternipes
• Ortachne erectifolia(Swallen) Clayton - Lorenzochloa erectifolia

References

1. Tropicos, Ortachne Nees ex Steud.
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Spegazzini, Carlo Luigi. 1880. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 9: 178
4. Tropicos, Parodiella Speg.
5. Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von. 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 121 in Latin
6. Reeder, John Raymond & Reeder, Charlotte Olive. 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 279f., f. 1A–B, D–F, 3
7. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
8. The Plant List search for Ortachne
9. Zuloaga, F. O., E. G. Nicora, Z. E. Rúgolo de Agrasar, O. Morrone, J. F. Pensiero & A. M. Cialdella. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 47: 1–178