Rhytachne

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Panicoideae
Tribus: Andropogoneae
Subtribus: Rhytachninae
Genus: Rhytachne
Species: R. furtiva – R. glabra – R. gonzalezii – R. gracilis – R. guianensis – R. latifolia – R. lijiangensis – R. megastachya – R. perfecta – R. robusta – R. rottboellioides – R. subgibbosa – R. triaristata
Name

Rhytachne Desv. ex Ham., Prodr. Pl. Ind. Occid.: xiv (1825)
Type species: Rhytachne rottboellioides Desv. ex Ham., Prodr. Pl. Ind. Occid.: 12 (1825)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Lepturopsis Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 357 (1854)

References

Desvaux, N.A. (1825) (Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis xiv, 11.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Rhytachne in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 2. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Rhytachne. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 2.
Tropicos.org 2013. Rhytachne. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 2.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Rhytachne. Published online. Accessed: 2 Dec. 2013.

Rhytachne is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3] They grow principally in wet savannahs in Africa and the Americas. More specifically, they tend to prefer transitional zones between marshes and drier upland savannahs. In the Americas the genus can be found from southern Mexico and Cuba south to northern Argentina, while in Africa it is present below the Sahara, including in Madagascar. Twelve species are included, of which nine are African, two are American, and one, Rhytachne subgibbosa, is found on both continents.[4][5] The genus is closely related to Coelorachis.[6][7]

Species[1][8][9][10][11][12]

Rhytachne furtiva Clayton - Ghana, Burkina Faso
Rhytachne glabra (Gledhill) Clayton - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast
Rhytachne gonzalezii Davidse - Suriname, Venezuela (Guárico, Apure), Brazil (Pará)
Rhytachne gracilis Stapf - West Africa from Senegal to Cameroon
Rhytachne guianensis (Hitchc.) Clayton - Mexico (Tabasco), Venezuela (Guárico, Apure, Amazonas, Bolívar), Guyana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapá, Minas Gerais)
Rhytachne latifolia Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia
Rhytachne megastachya Jacq.-Fél. Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Rhytachne perfecta Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea
Rhytachne robusta Stapf - Zambia, Angola, Namibia
Rhytachne rottboellioides Desv. ex Ham. - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa
Rhytachne subgibbosa (Winkler ex Hack.) Clayton - Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico; Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Zambia
Rhytachne triaristata (Steud.) Stapf - tropical Africa

formerly included[1]

see Loxodera Phacelurus Thelepogon Urelytrum

Rhytachne anisonodis - Phacelurus trichophyllus
Rhytachne bovonei - Loxodera bovonei
Rhytachne congoensis - Phacelurus gabonensis
Rhytachne gabonensis - Phacelurus gabonensis
Rhytachne gigantea - Urelytrum giganteum
Rhytachne lijiangensis - Phacelurus trichophyllus
Rhytachne pilosa - Loxodera bovonei
Rhytachne princeps - Thelepogon elegans

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Hamilton, William. 1825. Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis xiv, 11-12 in Latin
Tropicos, Rhytachne Desv. ex Ham.
Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Davidse, Gerrit (1984), "A New Species of Rhytachne (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) from Northern South America", Brittonia, 36 (4): 402–405, doi:10.2307/2806601, JSTOR 2806601, S2CID 84735635
Clayton, W.D. (1978), "The Genus Rhytachne (Graminieae)", Kew Bulletin, 32 (4): 767–771, doi:10.2307/4109770, JSTOR 4109770
Clayton, W. D. 1978. The genus Rhytachne (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 32(4): 767–771
The Plant List Search for Rhytachne
Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela
Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247
Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México D.F..