Dallwatsonia

Genus of grasses

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

B.K.Simon
Type species
Dallwatsonia felliana
B.K.Simon

Dallwatsonia is a genus of Australian, Asian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[1] Most of the species have been incorporated into the genus only recently, transferred from Panicum in 2014.[2]

The genus is named for Australian botanists Michael Dallwitz and Leslie Watson.[2]

Species[3][2][4]
  • Dallwatsonia aurita (J. Presl ex Nees) J.R. Grande - India, China, southeast Asia, New Guinea[5]
  • Dallwatsonia bresolinii (L.B. Sm. & Wassh.) J.R. Grande - Santa Catarina
  • Dallwatsonia condensata (Bertol.) J.R. Grande - Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
  • Dallwatsonia felliana B.K. Simon - Queensland in Australia[6]
  • Dallwatsonia hylaeica (Mez) J.R. Grande - widespread in Mesoamerica, South America, West Indies
  • Dallwatsonia leptachne (Döll) J.R. Grande - Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
  • Dallwatsonia longa (Hitchc. & Chase) J.R. Grande - Veracruz in Mexico
  • Dallwatsonia pilosa (Sw.) J.R. Grande - widespread in Mesoamerica, South America, West Indies
  • Dallwatsonia polygonata (Schrad.) J.R. Grande - widespread in Mesoamerica, South America, West Indies
  • Dallwatsonia stagnatilis (Hitchc. & Chase) J.R. Grande - Mesoamerica
  • Dallwatsonia stevensiana (Hitchc. & Chase) J.R. Grande - West Indies, northern South America

References

  1. ^ Simon, Bryan Kenneth. 1992. Austrobaileya 3(4): 678
  2. ^ a b c Grande Allende, José Ramón. 2014. Phytoneuron 2014(22): 1-6
  3. ^ Tropicos, search for Dallwatsonia=
  4. ^ Zuloaga, F. O., R. P. Ellis & O. Morrone. 1992. A revision of Panicum subgenus Phanopyrum section Laxa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79(4): 770–818
  5. ^ Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. Revision of Panicum and Whiteochloa in Malesia (Gramineae-Paniceae). Blumea 41: 181–216.
  6. ^ Atlas of Living Australia
Taxon identifiers
Dallwatsonia


  • v
  • t
  • e