Sacciolepis

Last updated

Sacciolepis
Sacciolepis indica.jpg
Sacciolepis indica
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Genus: Sacciolepis
Nash
Type species
Sacciolepis gibba
(syn of S. striata) [1]
(Elliott) Nash
Synonyms [1]
  • RhampholepisStapf

Sacciolepis is a genus of plants in the grass family. [2] [3] Cupscale grass is a common name for plants in this genus. [4]

They are widespread in tropical and warmer temperate regions. Many are native to Africa, with others in Asia, Australia, and the Americas. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

These species are annual or perennial and may have rhizomes or stolons. The inflorescence is usually a narrow, dense panicle. They generally grow in moist habitat, such as marshes and streambanks. [7] Sacciolepis is closely related to genus Panicum . [5] [6]

Species [1] [11] [12] [13]
formerly included [1]

see Hymenachne Panicum

Related Research Articles

<i>Ocimum</i> Genus of flowering plants

Ocimum is a genus of aromatic annual and perennial herbs and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native to the tropical and warm temperate regions of all 6 inhabited continents, with the greatest number of species in Africa. It is the genus of basil and its best known species are the cooking herb great basil, O. basilicum, and the medicinal herb tulsi, O. tenuiflorum.

<i>Tabernaemontana</i> Genus of plants

Tabernaemontana is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. It has a pan-tropical distribution, found in Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and a wide assortment of oceanic islands. These plants are evergreen shrubs and small trees growing to 1–15 m tall. The leaves are opposite, 3–25 cm long, with milky sap; hence it is one of the diverse plant genera commonly called "milkwood". The flowers are fragrant, white, 1–5 cm in diameter.

<i>Tragia</i> Genus of flowering plants in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae

Tragia is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across North and South America, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, northern Australia, and to various islands in the Caribbean and in the Indian Ocean.

<i>Dombeya</i> Genus of flowering plants

Dombeya is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. These plants are known by a number of vernacular names which sometimes, misleadingly, allude to the superficial similarity of flowering Dombeya to pears or hydrangeas. Therefore, the genus as a whole is often simply called dombeyas. The generic name commemorates Joseph Dombey (1742–1794), a French botanist and explorer in South America, involved in the notorious "Dombey affair", embroiling scientists and governments of France, Spain, and Britain for more than two years.

<i>Aneilema</i> Genus of flowering plants

Aneilema is a genus of monocotyledonous plants of approximately 60 species. The vast majority of the species are native to sub-Saharan Africa, but a few are found in Oceania and one, Aneilema brasiliense, is from South America. It is the third largest genus in the family Commelinaceae after Commelina and Tradescantia, and it is one of only six genera in the family to occur in both the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.

<i>Syngonanthus</i> Genus of plants

Syngonanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Eriocaulaceae. It is native to tropical Africa and to Latin America.

<i>Eriochloa</i> Genus of grasses

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass. They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia.

<i>Hyparrhenia</i> Genus of grasses

Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses. Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.

Phacelurus is a genus of African and Eurasian plants in the grass family.

Eriochrysis is a genus of African and Neotropical plants in the grass family.

<i>Schizachyrium</i> Genus of grasses

Schizachyrium is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words σχίζειν, meaning "to split," and ἄχυρον, meaning "chaff." It refers to either the glume or the toothed lemmas.

<i>Sorghastrum</i> Genus of grasses

Sorghastrum is a genus of grasses, native to Africa and the Americas.

<i>Elymandra</i> Genus of grasses

Elymandra is a genus of African and South American plants in the grass family. Most known species are native to Africa; one is found in Brazil.

<i>Hymenachne</i> Genus of grasses

Hymenachne is a genus of widespread wetlands plants that is in the grass family. They are commonly known as marsh grasses. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. A species from the Americas, H. amplexicaulis, is well known in other parts of the world as an introduced and invasive species.

<i>Englerophytum</i> Genus of flowering plants

Englerophytum is a group of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1914.

<i>Haumaniastrum</i> Genus of flowering plants

Haumaniastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1959. The species are native to Africa.

Hilleria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Petiveriaceae.

Donella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Sapotaceae.

<i>Ruspolia</i> (plant) Genus of plants

Ruspolia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.

<i>Urochloa trichopus</i> Species of plant

Urochloa trichopus, bushveld signal grass is a species of grass that is native to tropical and southern parts of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and western Madagascar.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Nash, George Valentine. 1901. Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada page 89 in English
  3. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. ↑ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Sacciolepis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 Judziewicz, E. J. (1990). A new South American species of Sacciolepis (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae), with a summary of the genus in the New World. Systematic Botany 15(3) 415-20.
  6. 1 2 Simon, B. K. (1972). A revision of the genus Sacciolepis (Gramineae) in the 'Flora Zambesiaca' area. Kew Bulletin 27(3) 387-406.
  7. 1 2 Wipff, J. K. Sacciolepis Nash. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.
  8. ↑ Flora of China, Vol. 22 Page 500, 510, 511 囊颖草属 nang ying cao shu Sacciolepis Nash, Man. Fl. N. States. 89. 1901.
  9. ↑ "Atlas of Living Australia, Sacciolepis R.C.Nash, Cupscale Grass". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  10. ↑ Sanbi Red List of South African Plants
  11. ↑ The Plant List search for Sacciolepis
  12. ↑ Sacciolepis Species List. Germplasm Resources Information Network.
  13. ↑ Quattrocchi, U. CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology, Volume 1. CRC Press. 2006. pg. 1937.
  14. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.