Lophacme

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Lophacme
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Hubbardochloinae
Genus: Lophacme
Stapf [1]
Type species
Lophacme digitata
Stapf [2]

Lophacme is a genus of African plants in the grass family. [3] [4]

Species [5] [6]
formerly included [5]

see Enteropogon

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References

  1.  This genus was first named in Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal. London, 7(2): 316. 1898 "Plant Name Details for Genus Lophacme". IPNI . Retrieved April 28, 2011.
  2.  The type species for Lophacme (L. digitata) was originally published in Hooker's Icones Plantarum; or Figures, with brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New or Rare Plants 27: plate 2611. 1899 "Plant Name Details for Lophacme digitata Stapf". IPNI. Retrieved April 28, 2011. Notes: Afr. austr
  3. Stapf, Otto. 1898. Flora Capensis 7(2): 316 in English
  4. Tropicos, Lophacme Stapf
  5. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. The Plant List search for Lophacme
  7. Sanbi Red List of South African Plants, Lophacme digitata Stapf