Cladoraphis

Bristly Lovegrass
Cladoraphis cyperoides
Botanical Garden in Kaisaniemi
Helsinki, Finland
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus: Cladoraphis
Synonyms[1]
  • Eragrostis sect. Cladoraphis (Franch.) Pilg.

Cladoraphis (common name Bristly Lovegrass)[2][3] is a genus of African plants in the grass family, native to southern Africa.[4][5] Its phylogenetic position within the subfamily has not yet been resolved.[6][7]

Species[8][9]
  1. Cladoraphis cyperoides (Thunb.) S.M.Phillips - Angola, Cape Province, Namibia; naturalized in the Columbia River Gorge in the US State of Oregon[10]
  2. Cladoraphis spinosa (L.f.) S.M.Phillips - Cape Province, Namibia

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos, Cladoraphis Franch.
  2. ↑ Fardenguides, Bristly Lovegrass, Cladoraphis/
  3. ↑ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile, Cladoraphis Franch. bristly lovegrass
  4. ↑ Franchet, Adrien René. 1887. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris 1: 673-674 description in Latin, commentary in French
  5. ↑ Gibbs Russell, G.E., L. Watson, M. Koekemoer, L. Smook, N.P. Barker, H.M. Anderson, and M.J. Dallwitz. Grasses of Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). National Botanic Gardens, Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. 437 pp.
  6. ↑ Peterson, P.M., K. Romaschenko, and G. Johnson. 2010. A classification of the Chloridoideae (Poaceae) based on multi-gene phylogenetic trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:580-598; doi10.1016/y.ympev.2010.01.018
  7. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  8. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  9. ↑ The Plant List search for Cladoraphis
  10. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map


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