Biology:Ctenium

Short description: Genus of grasses

Ctenium
Ctenium aromaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Tribe:	Cynodonteae
Subtribe:	Cteniinae P.M.Peterson, Romasch. & Y.Herrera
Genus:	Ctenium Panz. 1813 not C.E.O. Jensen 1923
Type species
Ctenium carolinianum (syn of C. aromaticum) Panz.
Synonyms
Aplocera Raf. Campuloa Desv. Campulosus Desv. Monathera Raf. Monocera Elliott Triatherus Raf.

Ctenium is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family.

Species

• Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood - United States from Texas to New Jersey
• Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner - Bahia
• Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil , Paraguay
• Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm. - Brazil
• Ctenium canescens Benth. West Africa
• Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll - Brazil
• Ctenium cirrhosum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil , Suriname
• Ctenium concinnum Nees - Africa incl Madagascar
• Ctenium concissum Swallen - Panama, Colombia, Brazil , Bolivia
• Ctenium crista-castrensis (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen - United States, Canada
• Ctenium elegans Kunth - Africa
• Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc. - Georgia, Florida
• Ctenium ledermannii Pilg. - central Africa
• Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope - Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia
• Ctenium newtonii Hack. - Africa
• Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth - central + southern Mexico
• Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen - western Mexico
• Ctenium polystachyum Balansa - Brazil , Paraguay
• Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton - Guinea, Liberia
• Ctenium villosum Berhaut - West Africa

formerly included

see Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon

• Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus
• Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon tenellus
• Ctenium nukaviense - Dactyloctenium aegyptium
• Ctenium rupestre - Enteropogon rupestris
• Ctenium sechellense - Enteropogon sechellensis

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1304206 entry