Acroceras

Acroceras fluminense

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Panicoideae
Tribus: Paniceae
Subtribus: Boivinellinae
Genus: Acroceras
Species: A. amplectens – A. attenuatum – A. boivinii – A. bosseri – A. calcicola – A. chaseae – A. diffusum – A. elegans – A. excavatum – A. fluminense – A. gabunense – A. hubbardii – A. ivohibense – A. lateriticum – A. macrum – A. mandrarense – A. manongarivense – A. munroanum – A. parvulum – A. sambiranense – A. seyrigii – A. tenuicaule – A. tonkinense – A. zizanioides

Name

Acroceras Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 621 (1920)

• Type species: Acroceras zizanioides (Kunth) Dandy, J. Bot. 69: 54 (1931)

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Commelinidium Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 627 (1920)
  • Neohusnotia A.Camus, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 26: 664 (1920)
  • Setiacis S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 26: 217 (1988)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Cosmopolitan Regionalː Tropics & Subtropics Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Stapf, O. in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.) 1920. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 621.

Additional references

• Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. 2006. World Grass Species – Synonymy database. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available for download as an Access file from Synonymy database. Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Acroceras in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Oct. 27. Reference page. 
• Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Acroceras. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 27.
• Tropicos.org 2013. Acroceras. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 27 Oct. 2013. Reference page.
• International Plant Names Index. 2013. Acroceras. Published online. Accessed 27 Oct. 2013. Reference page.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2013. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Acroceras. Accessed: 2013 27 Oct. {{{4}}}.

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