Acroceras is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5]
| Acroceras | |
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| Acroceras hubbardii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Panicodae |
| Tribe: | Paniceae |
| Subtribe: | Boivinellinae |
| Genus: | Acroceras Stapf |
| Type species | |
| Acroceras oryzoides (syn of A. zizanioides)[1] Stapf
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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The genus is widespread across warmer parts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, with a high amount of diversity in Madagascar.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
- Species[1]
- Acroceras amplectens
- Acroceras attenuatum
- Acroceras boivinii
- Acroceras bosseri
- Acroceras calcicola
- Acroceras chaseae
- Acroceras diffusum
- Acroceras elegans
- Acroceras excavatum
- Acroceras fluminense
- Acroceras gabunense
- Acroceras hubbardii
- Acroceras ivohibense
- Acroceras lateriticum
- Acroceras macrum
- Acroceras mandrarense
- Acroceras manongarivense
- Acroceras munroanum
- Acroceras parvulum
- Acroceras paucispicata
- Acroceras sambiranense
- Acroceras seyrigii
- Acroceras tenuicaule
- Acroceras tonkinense
- Acroceras zizanioides
- formerly included[1]
see Brachiaria Panicum
- Acroceras paucispicatum - Brachiaria paucispicata
- Acroceras pilgerianum - Panicum pilgerianum
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Stapf, Otto. 1920. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 621
- ^ Tropicos, Acroceras Stapf
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ Camus, A. 1946. Lepturus, Acroceras et Brachiaria nouveaux de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 93: 86–89
- ^ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ "Acroceras". Flora of China – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín
- ^ Clayton, W. D. & S. A. Renvoize. 1982. Gramineae (Part 3). 451–898. In R. M. Polhill (ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam
- ^ Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557.
- ^ Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
- ^ Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
External links
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