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Sphaerocaryum

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Genus of grasses

Sphaerocaryum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Micrairoideae
Tribe: Isachneae
Genus: Sphaerocaryum
Nees ex Hook.f.
Species: S. malaccense
Binomial name
Sphaerocaryum malaccense
(Trin.) Pilg.
Synonyms
  • Steudelella Honda
  • Graya Arn. ex Steud. 1854, illegitimate homonym not Endl. 1841 (Amaranthaceae)
  • Sphaerocaryum elegans Nees ex Steud. (type species)
  • Panicum malaccense Trin.
  • Agrostis malaccensis (Trin.) Willd. ex Kunth
  • Graya elegans Arn. ex Steud.
  • Panicum barbivaginale Hayata

Sphaerocaryum is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Sphaerocaryum malaccense, native to southern China, Indochina, the Indian Subcontinent, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, and Sumatra. (Isachne pulchella was formerly included in this genus, as Sphaerocaryum pulchellum.)

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel ex Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1896. Flora of British India 7(22): 246-247 entirely in English
  3. Tropicos, Sphaerocaryum Nees ex Hook. f.
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. "Sphaerocaryum in Flora of China @". Efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  6. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 560 稗荩属 bai jin shu Sphaerocaryum Nees ex J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India. 7: 246. 1896
Taxon identifiers
Sphaerocaryum
Sphaerocaryum malaccense


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