Biology:Capillipedium

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Capillipedium
Capillipedium parviflorum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Andropogoninae
Genus: Capillipedium
Stapf
Type species
Capillipedium parviflorum
(R.Br.) Stapf
Synonyms[1]
  • Filipedium Raizada & S.K.Jain

Capillipedium (common name scented-tops)[2] is a genus of plants in the grass family.[3][4][5] They are native to Africa, Asia, Australia , and certain islands in the Western Pacific.[6][7]

Capillipedium mistryi is an exception in the genus from India in which solid instead of translucent pedicels are seen and spikelets are multispiculated, racemes comprising up to 25 spikelets.[3] A recently described species, C. yashwantraoi, from Madhya Pradesh, India has been subsumed under the former as a new heterotypic synonym.[8]

Species[1][9]
  • Capillipedium annamense - Thailand, Vietnam
  • Capillipedium assimile - China, Ryukyu Is, SE Asia, Indian Subcon
  • Capillipedium duongii - Vietnam
  • Capillipedium filiculme - India
  • Capillipedium huegelii - Indian Subcon, Myanmar
  • Capillipedium kuoi - Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet
  • Capillipedium kwashotense - Taiwan, Iriomote-jima
  • Capillipedium laoticum - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Capillipedium leucotrichum - Laos, Cambodia
  • Capillipedium longisetosum - Thailand
  • Capillipedium magdalenii - India
  • Capillipedium mistryi
  • Capillipedium nagense - Assam
  • Capillipedium parviflorum - Africa (from Eritrea to Mpumalanga), Asia (from Oman to Japan + Sulawesi), Australia, Pacific Islands
  • Capillipedium planipedicellatum - Assam
  • Capillipedium pteropechys - Nagaland
  • Capillipedium spicigerum - Japan, S China, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Is, New Guinea, Solomon Is, Australia, New Caledonia, Micronesia
  • Capillipedium sulcatum - Thailand
formerly included[1]

see Hemisorghum

  • Capillipedium venustum - Hemisorghum venustum

See also

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2221642 entry