| Acostia | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Paspaleae |
| Subtribe: | Paspalinae |
| Genus: | Acostia Swallen |
| Species: | A. gracilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acostia gracilis Swallen | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acostia is a genus of South American plants in the grass family.
The only known species is Acostia gracilis, found only in Ecuador. It is listed as an endangered species.
The genus name of Acostia is in honour of Misael Acosta Solís (1910–1994), an Ecuadorian naturalist. The Latin specific epithet of gracilis means "slender". Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.12 on page 109 in 1968.
See also
References
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 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 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- Swallen, Jason Richard 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 109
- Webster, R. D., J. H. Kirkbride & J. V. Reyna. 1989. New World genera of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Sida 13(4): 393–417
- ^ "Acostia Swallen | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- Laegaard, S. & Pitman, N. 2004. Panicum acostia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
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| Acostia | |
| Acostia gracilis | |
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