Biology:Lorenzochloa
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Short description: Genus of grasses
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Stipodae |
| Tribe: | Stipeae |
| Genus: | Lorenzochloa Reeder & C.Reeder |
| Species: | L. erectifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Lorenzochloa erectifolia (Swallen) Reeder & C.Reeder
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Lorenzochloa is a monotypic genus of perennial plants in the grass family. The only known species is Lorenzochloa erectifolia (Swallen) Reeder & C.Reeder They are native to South America. It was formerly placed in the Ortachne genus, as Ortachne erectifolia,[2] until phylogenetic analysis.[3]
They are found in Colombia,[4] Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.[1]
The genus name of Lorenzochloa is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), who was an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of botany in Buenos Aires and La Plata with a focus on South American grasses.[5]
The genus was circumscribed in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. vol.11 on page 239 in 1969.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Lorenzochloa" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/330417-2. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ↑ Robert J. Soreng (Editor) Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae), Volume 48 (2000), p. 431, at Google Books
- ↑ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Romaschenko, Konstantin; Clark, Lynn G.; Teisher, Jordan K.; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Barberá, Patricia et al. (May 2022). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) III: An update". Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60 (3 (The Biogeography of Grasses (Poaceae))): 476–521.
- ↑ A. M. Cleef [https://books.google.com/books?id=08M5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA165 The Vegetation of the Paramos of the Colombian Cordillera Oriental (1981)], p. 165, at Google Books
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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