Biology:Chaetobromus

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Chaetobromus
Scientific classification edit
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Nees[1]
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Binomial name
Chaetobromus involucratus
(Schrad.) Nees
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Danthonia sect. Chaetobromus (Nees) Steud.
  • Avena involucrata Schrad.
  • Danthonia involucrata (Schrad.) Schrad.
  • Pentameris involucrata (Schrad.) Nees
  • Chaetobromus dregeanus Nees
  • Danthonia dregeana (Nees) Steud.
  • Chaetobromus interceptus Nees
  • Danthonia intercepta (Nees) Steud.
  • Chaetobromus schraderi Stapf
  • Chaetobromus schlechteri Pilg.
  • Chaetobromus involucratus var. sericeus Nees

Chaetobromus is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[4]

Species

There is only one known species, Chaetobromus involucratus, native to Namibia and Cape Province.[2][5]

Subspecies[2]

Three subspecies are accepted

  • Chaetobromus involucratus subsp. dregeanus (Nees) Verboom
  • Chaetobromus involucratus subsp. involucratus
  • Chaetobromus involucratus subsp. sericeus (Nees) Verboom
Formerly included[2]

taxa once considered part of Chaetobromus but now regarded as better suited to Tenaxia :

  • Chaetobromus fascicularis - Tenaxia stricta
  • Chaetobromus strictus - Tenaxia stricta

See also

References

  1. Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1836. Natural System of Botany, page 449
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Tropicos, Chaetobromus Nees
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria

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