Heteropholis

Genus of grasses

Heteropholis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Rottboelliinae
Genus: Heteropholis
C.E.Hubb.
Type species
Heteropholis sulcata
(Stapf) C.E.Hubb.[1]

Heteropholis is a genus of African and Sri Lankan plants in the grass family.[2][3]

Species[4]
  • Heteropholis benoistii A.Camus - Madagascar
  • Heteropholis nigrescens (Thwaites) C.E.Hubb. - Sri Lanka
  • Heteropholis sulcata (Stapf) C.E.Hubb. - Zaḭre, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Malawi
Formerly included[4]

see Mnesithea

  • Heteropholis annua - Mnesithea annua
  • Heteropholis cochinchinensis - Mnesithea laevis var. cochinchinensis
  • Heteropholis cochinchinensis var. chenii - Mnesithea laevis var. chenii

References

  1. ^ The International Plant Names Index
  2. ^ Hubbard, Charles Edward 1956. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 36: §3548
  3. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Taxon identifiers
Heteropholis


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