Biology:Chondrosum

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Chondrosum
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Chondrosum

Desv.
Type species
Chondrosum procumbens
(P.Durand) Desv.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Erucaria Cerv. 1870. illegitimate homonym not Gaertn. 1791 (Brassicaceae)
  • Actinochloa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Bouteloua sect. Chondrosum (Desv.) Benth. & Hook. f.
  • Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) A. Gray
  • Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) Gould

Chondrosum is a genus of North American and South American plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Chondrosum is closely related to Bouteloua and considered part of that genus in some publications.[2]

Species[1][5][6][7]
  • Chondrosum barbatum (Lag.) Clayton - United States (California AZ NM Texas OK Kansas CO UT NV MT), Mexico, Argentina
  • Chondrosum brevisetum (Vasey) Clayton - United States (NM Texas ), widespread in Mexico
  • Chondrosum chasei (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí)
  • Chondrosum elatum (Reeder & C.Reeder) Clayton - Mexico (Colima, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit), Guatemala
  • Chondrosum eriopodum Torr. - United States (California AZ NM Texas OK Kansas CO UT NV), Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
  • Chondrosum eriostachyum (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila)
  • Chondrosum gracile Kunth - widespread in Canada, United States, Mexico; naturalized in China, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia
  • Chondrosum hirsutum (Lag.) Sweet - widespread in United States + Mexico + Guatemala
  • Chondrosum karwinskyi E.Fourn. ex Hemsl. Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
  • Chondrosum kayi (Warnock) Clayton - Big Bend region of Texas
  • Chondrosum parryi E.Fourn. - United States (AZ NM Texas ), Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa)
  • Chondrosum pectinatum (Feath.) Clayton USA (Texas OK)
  • Chondrosum scorpioides (Lag.) Kunth - northern + central Mexico
  • Chondrosum simplex (Lag.) Kunth - United States (AZ NM Texas NV UT CO Kansas NE WY), Mesoamerica, South America
  • Chondrosum trifidum (Thurb.) Clayton - United States (California AZ NM Texas NV UT), northern Mexico
formerly included[1]

species now considered better suited to other genera: Bouteloua Chloris

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Chondrosum Desv.
  3. ↑ Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin. 1810. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 2: 188
  4. ↑ Clayton, W. D. 1982. Notes on subfamily Chloridoideae (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 37(3): 417–420
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Chondrosum
  6. ↑ Pohl, R. W. 1994. 99. Chondrosum Desv. 6: 292–293. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  7. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, genus Bouteloua

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