Leptothrium

Leptothrium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Leptothrium
Kunth 1829, conserved name, not Kunth 1816 (Orchidaceae)
Type species
Leptothrium rigidum
Synonyms[1]

Latipes Kunth

Leptothrium is a genus of African, Asian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[2]

Species[1][3]
  1. Leptothrium rigidum Kunth - Jamaica, Hispaniola, Colombia, Venezuela
  2. Leptothrium senegalense (Kunth) Clayton - Africa from Cape Verde to Tanzania and Egypt; Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan
homonym

The name Leptothrium in its current sense was coined by Karl Sigismund Kunth in 1829.[4] The same author had used the same name earlier, in 1816, to refer to a species of orchid.[5] This appears to have been in error, with the name merely listed as a synonym, but the name was nevertheless published so it must be considered a homonym. One species name was coined in 1816 using this homonym, i.e.

  • Leptothrium lineare (Jacq.) Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth 1816, syn of Isochilus linearis (Jacq.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton 1813[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. ↑ The Plant List search for Leptothrium
  4. ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1829. Révision des Graminées 1: 156 in Latin
  5. ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 340
  6. ↑ Tropicos, Leptothrium Kunth 1816
  7. ↑ The International Plant Names Index


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