Biology:Chondrosum

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Chondrosum
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Chondrosum

Desv.
Type species
Chondrosum procumbens
(P.Durand) Desv.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Erucaria Cerv. 1870. illegitimate homonym not Gaertn. 1791 (Brassicaceae)
  • Actinochloa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Bouteloua sect. Chondrosum (Desv.) Benth. & Hook. f.
  • Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) A. Gray
  • Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) Gould

Chondrosum is a genus of North American and South American plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Chondrosum is closely related to Bouteloua and considered part of that genus in some publications.[2]

Species[1][5][6][7]
  • Chondrosum barbatum (Lag.) Clayton - United States (California AZ NM Texas OK Kansas CO UT NV MT), Mexico, Argentina
  • Chondrosum brevisetum (Vasey) Clayton - United States (NM Texas ), widespread in Mexico
  • Chondrosum chasei (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí)
  • Chondrosum elatum (Reeder & C.Reeder) Clayton - Mexico (Colima, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit), Guatemala
  • Chondrosum eriopodum Torr. - United States (California AZ NM Texas OK Kansas CO UT NV), Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
  • Chondrosum eriostachyum (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila)
  • Chondrosum gracile Kunth - widespread in Canada, United States, Mexico; naturalized in China, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia
  • Chondrosum hirsutum (Lag.) Sweet - widespread in United States + Mexico + Guatemala
  • Chondrosum karwinskyi E.Fourn. ex Hemsl. Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
  • Chondrosum kayi (Warnock) Clayton - Big Bend region of Texas
  • Chondrosum parryi E.Fourn. - United States (AZ NM Texas ), Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa)
  • Chondrosum pectinatum (Feath.) Clayton USA (Texas OK)
  • Chondrosum scorpioides (Lag.) Kunth - northern + central Mexico
  • Chondrosum simplex (Lag.) Kunth - United States (AZ NM Texas NV UT CO Kansas NE WY), Mesoamerica, South America
  • Chondrosum trifidum (Thurb.) Clayton - United States (California AZ NM Texas NV UT), northern Mexico
formerly included[1]

species now considered better suited to other genera: Bouteloua Chloris

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Chondrosum Desv.
  3. Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin. 1810. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 2: 188
  4. Clayton, W. D. 1982. Notes on subfamily Chloridoideae (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 37(3): 417–420
  5. The Plant List search for Chondrosum
  6. Pohl, R. W. 1994. 99. Chondrosum Desv. 6: 292–293. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  7. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, genus Bouteloua

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