Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, A, 19

Authors:

Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

In Authors:

Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von
Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (né Goujaud)
Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

Published In: Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 95, t. 31. 1815[1816]. (29 Jan 1816) (Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.))

Type-Protologue

Locality: Crescit in pascius inundatis prope Guayaquil (Regno Quit.)

Collector and Number: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.

Distribution: Ecuador

Type Specimens

• HT: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.; ; Ecuador: Guayas

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  !!Poaceae Barnhart
• genus:  Eriochloa Kunth

Other names for this basionym:

Helopus polystachys (Kunth) Trin. ex Steud.

Milium polystachyon (Kunth) Spreng.

*Paspalum polystachyum (Kunth) Raspail

Urochloa polystachya (Kunth) Mabb.

Projects: Antioquia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , IPCN , Mesoamericana , New World Grasses , Nicaragua , Pakistan , PAPGI , Peru

Common Names:

• carib grass (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• janeiro (Spanish, Costa Rica)
  • Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater. 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. 6: i–xvi, 1–543. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D. F.
• malojilla (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.

Keywords: AGF, CEC, FNA, FWT, GD, GPR, IGS, PBRZ, BCA