Biology:Rottboellia

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Rottboellia (commonly called itch grass)[1] is a genus of African, Asian, and Australian plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

The genus was named in honour of Danish botanist Christen Friis Rottbøll (1727-1797).

Species

24 species are accepted.[5]

  • Rottboellia afraurita Stapf – tropical Africa
  • Rottboellia aurita Steud. – southeastern Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and central Brazil and Bolivia to northeastern Argentina
  • Rottboellia balansae Hack. – Bolivia, west-central Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina
  • Rottboellia campestris Nutt. – central and southeastern United States
  • Rottboellia cancellata Ridl. – Bangka, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam
  • Rottboellia clarkei Hack. – India and Myanmar
  • Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton - Africa, Asia, Australia
  • Rottboellia coelorachis G.Forst. - New Caledonia, Vanuatu
  • Rottboellia geminata Hack. – Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and southeastern Borneo
  • Rottboellia glandulosa Trin. – Indochina, Malesia, and New Guinea
  • Rottboellia goalparensis Bor - Assam
  • Rottboellia helferi Hook.f. – Indochina and Peninsular Malaysia
  • Rottboellia impressa Griseb. – western Cuba
  • Rottboellia laevispica Keng - Anhui, Jiangsu
  • Rottboellia lepidura (Stapf) Pilg. – Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique
  • Rottboellia paradoxa de Koning & Sosef - Philippines
  • Rottboellia parodiana (Henrard) Burkart – Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
  • Rottboellia purpurascens Robyns - tropical Africa
  • Rottboellia rottboellioides (R.Br.) Druce – Philippines, New Guinea, and northern and eastern Australia
  • Rottboellia rugosa Nutt. – south-central and southeastern United States from Texas to New Jersey
  • Rottboellia selloana Hack. – southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay
  • Rottboellia striata Nees ex Steud. – central Himalayas to Indochina and south-central China
  • Rottboellia tessellata Steud. – southeastern United States, from Louisiana to Florida and Georgia
  • Rottboellia tuberculosa (Nash) Hitchc. – Cuba and southeastern United States (Alabama, Florida, and Georgia)


Formerly included[6]

Numerous species now considered better suited to other genera: Chasmopodium, Coelorachis, Elionurus, Eremochloa, Festuca, Glyphochloa, Hainardia, Hemarthria, Henrardia, Heteropholis, Ischaemum, Lasiurus, Lolium, Loxodera, Manisuris, Mnesithea, Muhlenbergia, Ophiuros, Oropetium, Parapholis, Phacelurus, Pholiurus, Ratzeburgia, Rhytachne, Schizachyrium, Spartina, Stenotaphrum, Thaumastochloa, Urelytrum and Xerochloa.

References

  1. ↑ Atlas of Living Australia, itch grass, Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton
  2. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1782. Supplementum Plantarum 13-14, 114.
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Rottboellia L. f.
  4. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 644 筒轴茅属 tong zhou mao shu Rottboellia Linnaeus f., Suppl. Pl. 114
  5. ↑ "Rottboellia L.f.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331278-2. 
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named p

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