Chasmopodium

Chasmopodium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Chasmopodium
Type species
Chasmopodium caudatum

Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[1][2][3]

Species[4][5]
  1. Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf - Sierra Leone, Togo
  2. Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf - Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Zaïre, Chad, Sudan, Angola
formerly included[4][5]

see Rottboellia

  • Chasmopodium purpurascens - synonym of Rottboellia purpurascens

See also

References

  1. ↑ Stapf, Otto. 1917. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 76-77
  2. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. ↑ Schol, Hildemar. 1977. Die Gattung Chasmopodium (Gramineae: Andropogonoideae) in Togo und anderen west-afrikanischen Ländern. Willdenowia 8: 5-16 in German
  4. 1 2 The Plant List search for Chasmopodium
  5. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families


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