Biology:Leptaspis

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Leptaspis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pharoideae
Tribe: Phareae
Genus: Leptaspis
R.Br.[1]
Type species
Leptaspis banksii
R.Br.[2]

Leptaspis is a genus of Paleotropical plants in the grass family, native to Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia , and a few islands of the western Pacific.[3][4][5][6][7]

Species[8]
  • Leptaspis angustifolia Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. - New Guinea, Fiji
  • Leptaspis banksii R.Br. - Queensland, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines , Taiwan, Sulawesi, Malaysia, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Thailand
  • Leptaspis zeylanica Nees ex Steud. - tropical Africa from Liberia to Ethiopia to Zimbabwe; Madagascar , Comoros, Sri Lanka, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Formerly included[8]

see Scrotochloa

  • Leptaspis manillensis - Scrotochloa urceolata
  • Leptaspis tararaensis - Scrotochloa tararaensis
  • Leptaspis urceolata - Scrotochloa urceolata

References

  1. Brown, Robert 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 211 in Latin
  2. Tropicos, Leptaspis R. Br.
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Henty, E.E. (1969). A manual of the grasses of New Guinea: 1-215. Division of Botany, Dpt. of Forests, LAE, New Guinea.
  5. Gilliland, H.B. (1971). A revised flora of Malaya 3: 1-319. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Singapore.
  6. Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
  7. Turner, I.M. (1995 publ. 1997). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(2): 347-655.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Wikidata ☰ Q2697113 entry