Biology:Canastra

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Short description: Genus of plants

Canastra
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Paspaleae
Subtribe: Arthropogoninae
Genus: Canastra
Morrone, Zuloaga, Davidse & Filg.
Type species
Canastra lanceolata
(Filg.) Morrone, Zuloaga, Davidse & Filg.

Canastra is a genus of bunchgrass plants in the grass family. Its species are endemic to Brazil .[1][2][3]

Species

Species include:[4]

  • Canastra aristella (Döll) Zuloaga & Morrone — Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo states.
  • Canastra lanceolata (Filg.) Morrone, Zuloaga, Davidse & Filg. — Minas Gerais state.[5]

See also

References

  1. Morrone, O., F. O. Zuloaga, G. Davidse & T. S. Filgueiras. 2001. Canastra, a new genus of Paniceae (Poaceae, Panicoideae) segregated from Arthropogon. Novon 11(4): 429–436.
  2. Zuloaga, F. O., L. M. Giussani & O. Morrone. 2006. On the taxonomic position of Panicum aristellum (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Systematic Botany 31(3): 497–505
  3. Döll, Johann Christoph 1877. Flora Brasiliensis 2(2): 221 in Latin, as Panicum aristellum
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. Jstor.org: "Canastra, a New Genus of Paniceae (Poaceae, Panicoideae) Segregated from Arthropogon"; Osvaldo Morrone, Fernando O. Zuloaga, Gerrit Davidse and Tarciso S. Filgueiras; Novon Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 429-436.

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