Vossia cuspidata

Vossia is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5][6]

Species[1]

Hippo grass
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
(unranked):
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Poaceae
Genus:
Vossia

Wall. & Griff. 1836, conserved name not Adans. 17963 (Aizoaceae)
Binomial name
Vossia cuspidata
Type species
Vossia procera
Synonyms[1]
  • Ischaemum cuspidatum Roxb.
  • Ischaemum ensiforme Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Vossia cuspidata var. polystachya Koechlin
  • Vossia procera Wall. & Griff.

The only known species is Vossia cuspidata, native to Africa (from Senegal to Egypt + Somalia + Namibia), and to Assam, Bangladesh, and northern Indochina. Common name is hippo grass.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Formerly included[1]

see Phacelurus

  • Vossia cambogiensis - Phacelurus cambogiensis
  • Vossia speciosa - Phacelurus speciosus

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Wallich, Nathaniel & Griffith, William. 1836. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 572-574 in Latin
  3. Wallich, Nathaniel & Griffith, William. 1836. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: plate XXIII (23), figure in center line drawing of Vossia procera (syn of V. cuspidata)
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  6. Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux
  7. US Department of Agriculture plants profile
  8. Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford
  9. Lewalle, J. (1970). Liste floristique et répartition altitudinale de la flore du Burundi occidental: 1-84. Université officielle de Bujumbura
  10. Lebrun, J.P. (1973). Énumération des plantes vasculaires du Sénégal: 1-209. Maisons Alfort: Institut d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux
  11. Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps
  12. Aké Assi, L. (2002). Flore de la Côte-d'Ivoire: catalogue systématique, biogéographie et écologie. II. Boissiera 58: 1-401.
  13. Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo , ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville
  14. Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
  15. Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers


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