Uranthoecium

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Flat-stem grass
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus:Uranthoecium
(Maiden & Betche) Stapf
Species:U. truncatum
Binomial name
Uranthoecium truncatum
(Maiden & Betche) Stapf
Synonyms [1]
  • Rottboellia truncataMaiden & Betche

Uranthoecium is a genus of plants in the grass family. [2] [3] [4] The only known species is Uranthoecium truncatum, native to Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Western Australia. [1] [5] Common name is flat-stem grass. [6]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Poaceae family of plants

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass. Poaceae includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and cultivated lawns and pasture. Grasses have stems that are hollow except at the nodes and narrow alternate leaves borne in two ranks. The lower part of each leaf encloses the stem, forming a leaf-sheath. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, Poaceae are the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.

Queensland North-east state of Australia

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

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  3. Eragrostiella collettii(Stapf) Bor - Andaman Islands, Myanmar
  4. Eragrostiella leioptera(Stapf) Bor - Assam
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  3. Elymandra gossweileri(Stapf) Clayton - from Senegal to Angola
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  5. Urochloa glumaris(Trin.) Veldkamp – Thurston grass - southern China, Southeast Asia, Indian subcon, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
  6. Urochloa longifoliaB.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu - Yunnan
  7. Urochloa mosambicensis(Hack.) Dandy - Africa, Madagascar
  8. Urochloa oligotricha(Fig. & De Not.) Henrard - Africa
  9. Urochloa olivaceaSánchez-Ken - western Mexico
  10. Urochloa panicoidesP.Beauv. – panic liverseed grass - Africa, southern Asia
  11. Urochloa paucifloraSánchez-Ken - western Mexico
  12. Urochloa platyrrhachisC.E.Hubb. - Zambia, Zaïre
  13. Urochloa rudisStapf - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
  14. Urochloa sclerochlaenaChiov - Ethiopia, Kenya
  15. Urochloa setigera(Retz.) Stapf - Indian subcon, southern China, Southeast Asia
  16. Urochloa trichopodioides(Mez & K.Schum.) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen - Zaïre, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia
  17. Urochloa trichopus(Hochst.) Stapf - drier parts of Africa, Arabian Pen
  18. Urochloa venosa(Swallen) Morrone & Zuloaga - western Mexico (Michoacán)
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  1. Hemarthria altissima(Poir.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - limpograss, African jointgrass, Batavian quick grass, halt grass - China, India, Indochina, Borneo, Madagascar, Mauritius, Middle East, Caucasus, Africa, Canary Islands, Spain, Italy, Greece; naturalized in parts of North + South America
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  3. Hemarthria debilisBor - Thailand
  4. Hemarthria depressaHeuvel- Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
  5. Hemarthria hamiltonianaSteud. - India, Bangladesh
  6. Hemarthria longiflora(Hook.f.) A.Camus - China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Borneo
  7. Hemarthria natansStapf - eastern + south-central Africa
  8. Hemarthria pratensis(Balansa) Clayton - Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea
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  10. Hemarthria sibirica(Gand.) Ohwi - China, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia
  11. Hemarthria stoloniferaBor - Thailand
  12. Hemarthria uncinataR.Br. - matgrass - Western Australia

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Holcolemma is a genus of African, Asian, and Australian plants in the grass family.

  1. Holcolemma canaliculatum(Steud.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - Tanzania, India, Sri Lanka
  2. Holcolemma disparClayton - Queensland
  3. Holcolemma inaequaleClayton - Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia

Homozeugos is a genus of African plants in the grass family.

  1. Homozeugos conciliatumGuala - Angola
  2. Homozeugos eylesiiC.E.Hubb. - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
  3. Homozeugos fragileStapf - Angola
  4. Homozeugos gossweileriStapf - Angola
  5. Homozeugos huillense(Rendle) Stapf - Angola
  6. Homozeugos kataktonClayton - Angola, Zambia
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References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Stapf, Otto. 1916. Icones plantarum or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the author's herbarium 31: plate 3073 plus 2 subsequent text pages descriptions in Latin, commentary in English, full-page line drawing
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Uranthoecium Stapf
  4. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ↑ Ausgrass2, Grasses of Australia
  6. ↑ Atlas of Living Australia, Uranthoecium truncatum (Maiden & Betche) Stapf, Flat-stem Grass


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