Steinchisma

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Steinchisma
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Paspaleae
Subtribe: Otachyriinae
Genus: Steinchisma
Raf.
Type species
Steinchisma hians
(Elliott) Nash.
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • Panicum subg. Steinchisma(Raf.) Zuloaga
  • CliffordiochloaB.K.Simon
  • FasciculochloaB.K.Simon & C.M.Weiller

Steinchisma is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to the Americas but a few of them naturalized in Africa. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Species [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Tropicos, Steinchisma Raf.
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1830. Bulletin Botanique ou Collection de Notices Originales et d'Extraits des Ouvrages Botaniques. Geneve, Switzerland 1: 220
  4. ↑ Simon, B. K. 1999. Steinchisma hians (Elliott) Nash, the correct name for Fasciculochloa sparshottiorum B.K. Simon & C.M. Weiller. Austrobaileya 5(3): 585–586.
  5. ↑ Simon, B. K. 2003. Steinchisma laxa (Sw.) Zuloaga, the correct name for Cliffordiochloa parvispiculata B.K. Simon. Austrobaileya 6(3): 561–562.
  6. ↑ Zuloaga, F. O., O. Morrone, A. S. Vega & L. M. Giussani. 1998. Revisión y análisis cladístico de Steinchisma (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(4): 631–656
  7. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora in Spanish
  8. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
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