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Echinolaena
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Echinolaena

Type species
Echinolaena hirta
(syn of E. inflexa
Synonyms[1][2]

Echinolaena is a genus of plants in the grass family, native mostly to the New World tropics but with one species in Madagascar.[3][4]


Species[1][5][6]
  1. Echinolaena ecuadoriana - Ecuador
  2. Echinolaena gracilis - from Yucatán to Bolivia
  3. Echinolaena inflexa - Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Goiás, D.F., São Paulo, Maranhão
  4. Echinolaena madagascariensis - Madagascar
  5. Echinolaena minarum - Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, northern Argentina
  6. Echinolaena oplismenoides - Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana
  7. Echinolaena standelyi - Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize
formerly included[1]

see Ichnanthus Panicum Pseudechinolaena

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References

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Tropicos, Echinolaena Desv.
  3. ^ Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin 1813. Journal de Botanique, Appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts 1: 75 in Latin
  4. ^ Tarciso S. Filgueiras (1994). "A new species of Echinolaena (Poaceae: Paniceae) from Ecuador and a key to the New World species of the genus". Nordic Journal of Botany. 14 (4): 379–381. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.1994.tb00621.x.
  5. ^ The Plant List search for Echinolaena
  6. ^ Davidse, G. & R. W. Pohl. 1994. 112. Echinolaena Desv. 6: 302. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..