Loudetia

Loudetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Loudetia
Hochst. ex Steud. 1854, conserved name not Hochst. ex A. Braun 1841
Type species
Loudetia elegans
Hochst. ex A. Braun.[1]

Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species[6][7]
  1. Loudetia angolensis - Angola
  2. Loudetia annua - tropical Africa
  3. Loudetia arundinacea - tropical Africa
  4. Loudetia cerata - Chad, Central African Rep
  5. Loudetia coarctata - tropical Africa
  6. Loudetia cuanzensis - Angola
  7. Loudetia demeusei - Congo Republic, Zaïre
  8. Loudetia densispica - central + southern Africa
  9. Loudetia echinulata - Central African Rep
  10. Loudetia esculenta - Sudan
  11. Loudetia filifolia - Madagascar, Swaziland, Mpumalanga
  12. Loudetia flammida - tropical Africa, South America
  13. Loudetia flavida - Oman, tropical + southern Africa
  14. Loudetia furtiva - Cameroon
  15. Loudetia hordeiformis - tropical Africa
  16. Loudetia jaegeriana - Sierra Leone
  17. Loudetia kagerensis - tropical Africa
  18. Loudetia lanata - southern Africa
  19. Loudetia migiurtina - Somalia
  20. Loudetia phragmitoides - tropical Africa
  21. Loudetia pratii - Central African Rep
  22. Loudetia simplex - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa
  23. Loudetia tisserantii - Central African Rep
  24. Loudetia togoensis - tropical Africa
  25. Loudetia vanderystii - Zaire, Congo Republic, Gabon
formerly included[6]

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya

References

  1. 1 2 Tropicos, Loudetia Hochst. ex Steud.
  2. ↑ Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von. 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 238 in Latin
  3. ↑ Phipps, J. B. 1966. Studies in the Arundinelleae, III. Check-list and key to the genera. Kirkia 5: 235–258.
  4. ↑ Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420.
  5. ↑ Clayton, W. D. 1967. Studies in the Gramineae: XV. Arundinelleae. Kew Bull. 21(1): 119–124
  6. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  7. ↑ The Plant List search for Loudetia
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