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(Redirected from Avenastrum flabellatum) Genus of grasses

Bewsia
Bewsia biflora in South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Hubbardochloinae
Genus: Bewsia
Goossens
Species: B. biflora
Binomial name
Bewsia biflora
(Hack.) Gooss.
Synonyms
  • Diplachne biflora Hack.
  • Diplachne biflora var. buchananii Stapf
  • Avenastrum flabellatum Peter

Bewsia is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Bewsia biflora, widespread across much of sub-Saharan Africa from Ivory Coast to Tanzania to KwaZulu-Natal.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 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. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Sanbi Red List of South African Plants, Bewsia biflora (Hack.) Gooss.
  5. Goossens, Antonie Petrus Gerhardy 1941. South African Journal of Science 37: 184.
  6. Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa , ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
  7. Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.
  8. Cope, T. (1999). Flora Zambesiaca 10(2): 1-261. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  9. Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  10. Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
  11. Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  12. Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
Taxon identifiers
Bewsia
Bewsia biflora


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