Cyrtococcum

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Panicoideae
Tribus: Paniceae
Subtribus: Boivinellinae
Genus: Cyrtococcum
Species: C. accrescens – C. bosseri – C. capitis-york – C. chaetophoron – C. deccanense – C. deltoideum – C. fuscinode – C. humbertianum – C. longipes – C. multinode – C. oxyphyllum – C. patens – C. tamatavense – C. trigonum
Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Cyrtococcum in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 October 08. Reference page.

Name

Cyrtococcum Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 15 (1917)
Type species: Cyrtococcum chaetophoron (Roem. & Schult.) Dandy, J. Bot. 69: 55 (1931)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical Old World
Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Jamaica, Mexico Southeast, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Stapf, O. (1917) Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 15.

Additional references

Soreng,R.J., Davidse, G., Peterson, P.M., Zuloaga, F.O., Judziewicz, E.J., Filgueiras, T.S., O. Morrone, O. & Komaschenko, K. (2012) World-wide Phylogenetic Classification of Poaceae (Gramineae). Available on line Poaceae. Accessed 24 Nov. 2013.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Cyrtococcum in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Nov. 24. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Cyrtococcum. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Nov. 24. has this genus in the Sub-family Micrairoideae unlike Soreng et al (2012)
Tropicos.org 2013. Cyrtococcum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 24 Nov. 2013.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Cyrtococcum. Published online. Accessed: 24 Nov. 2013.

Vernacular names
മലയാളം: സിർട്ടോകോകം
中文: 弓果黍属

Cyrtococcum is a genus of Asian, African, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family.[3]

Species[1][4]

Cyrtococcum bosseri A.Camus - Madagascar
Cyrtococcum capitis-york B.K.Simon - Queensland
Cyrtococcum chaetophoron (Roem. & Schult.) Dandy - tropical Africa
Cyrtococcum deccanense Bor - India, Sri Lanka
Cyrtococcum deltoideum (Hack.) A.Camus - Madagascar
Cyrtococcum fuscinode (Steud.) A.Camus - Comoros
Cyrtococcum humbertianum A.Camus - Madagascar
Cyrtococcum longipes (Hook.f.) A.Camus - India, Myanmar to Andaman Islands
Cyrtococcum multinode (Lam.) Clayton - Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion
Cyrtococcum nossibeense A.Camus - Madagascar
Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum (Steud.) Stapf - China, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, several Pacific Island groups
Cyrtococcum patens (L.) A.Camus - China, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, several Pacific Island groups
Cyrtococcum tamatavense A.Camus - Madagascar
Cyrtococcum trigonum (Retz.) A.Camus - Kenya, Tanzania, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, several Pacific Island groups

formerly included[1]

see Panicum

Cyrtococcum sparsicomum - Panicum sparsicomum

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Tropicos, Cyrtococcum Stapf
Stapf, Otto in Prain, David. 1917. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 15
The Plant List search for Cyrtococcum