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wolfstails
Lycurus sp
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
(unranked):
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Poaceae
Genus:
Lycurus

Type species
Lycurus phleoides
Synonyms[2]

Pleopogon Nutt.

Lycurus is a small genus of New World plants in the grass family, native to North and South America.[3][4]

These grasses are known commonly as wolfstails.[5][6][7]

Species[2][8]
  1. Lycurus phalaroides Kunth - Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina
  2. Lycurus phleoides Kunth - southwestern + south-central USA (AZ UT CO NM TX OK),[9] northern + central Mexico, Bolivia, Peru
  3. Lycurus setosus (Nutt.) C.Reeder - southwestern + south-central USA (CA NV AZ UT CO NM TX OK KS), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí), northern Argentina

References

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S.D.A. Bull. 772: 139 (1920)
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 141-142
  4. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plate XLV (45) full-page line drawing of Lycurus phleoides
  5. ^ Jepson Manual Treatment
  6. ^ USDA Plants Profile
  7. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  8. ^ Reeder, Charlotte G. 1985. The genus Lycurus (Gramineae) in North America. Phytologia 57(4): 283–291
  9. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Lycurus phleoides


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