Pentameris
Pentameris | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Danthonioideae |
Tribe: | Danthonieae |
Genus: | Pentameris P.Beauv. |
Type species | |
P.Beauv.
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Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Pentameris is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Africa, with a few species in Yemen and on certain islands in the Indian Ocean.[3][4][2]
A significant number of species are endemic to South Africa.[5]
- Species[1]
- - South Africa
- - South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Madagascar
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa, Lesotho
- - South Africa
- - South Africa, Lesotho
- - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Tanzania
- - Tanzania
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Ethiopia
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa, Lesotho
- - South Africa, Lesotho
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Madagascar
- Pentameris insularis - Amsterdam I + St. Paul I (both in Indian Ocean)
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- - South Africa
- - South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland
- - South Africa, Lesotho
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Yemen, Sudan, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- - Lesotho
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa, Lesotho
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - Ethiopia
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- - South Africa
- formerly included[1]
see Chaetobromus Danthonia Merxmuellera Pseudopentameris Tenaxia
- Pentameris americana - Danthonia californica
- Pentameris californica - Danthonia californica
- Pentameris compressa - Danthonia compressa
- Pentameris epilis -
- Pentameris grandiflora -
- Pentameris intermedia - Danthonia intermedia
- Pentameris involucrata - Chaetobromus involucratus
- Pentameris macrantha -
- Pentameris obtusifolia -
- Pentameris provincialis -
- Pentameris sericea -
- Pentameris spicata - Danthonia spicata
- Pentameris squarrosa -
- Pentameris stricta -
- Pentameris thermalis - Danthonia spicata
- Pentameris unispicata - Danthonia unispicata
References[]
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Tropicos, Pentameris P. Beauv.
- ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 92-93 in Latin
- ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XVIII (18), figure VIII (8) line drawings of Pentameris thuarii
- ^ Linder, Hans Peter, et al. 2010. A generic classification of the Danthionioideae (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(3): 306-364
External links[]
Categories:
- Danthonioideae
- Grasses of Africa
- Grasses of South Africa
- Poaceae genera
- Poaceae stubs