Sartidia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Aristidoideae
Tribus: Aristideae
Genus: Sartidia
Species: S. angolensis – S. dewinteri – S. isaloensis –S. jucunda – S. perrieri – S. vanderystii
Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Sartidia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Feb 19. Reference page.

Name

Sartidia De Winter, Kirkia 3: 137 (1963)
Type species: Sartidia angolensis (C.E.Hubb.) De Winter, Kirkia 3: 137 (1963)

References

De Winter, B. (1963) Kirkia; The Zimbabwe Journal of Botany 3: 137.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Sartidia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 27. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Sartidia. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 27.
Tropicos.org 2013. Sartidia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 27.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Sartidia. Published online. Accessed: 27 Oct. 2013.

Vernacular names

Sartidia is a genus of Southern African and Madagascan plants in the grass family. It was split from Aristida in 1963 by South African botanist Bernard de Winter[1] and contains six known species, of which Sartidia perrieri is considered extinct.[2] Their natural habitats are warm, semi-arid savanna and dry forest at altitudes of 800–2,000 m (2,600–6,600 ft) where rainfall ranges from 250 to 1,500 mm per year.[2] They are perennial grasses with inflorescence in a panicle.[3]

Other than most species in subfamily Aristidoideae, Sartidia species use the ancestral C3 photosynthetic pathway. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that Sartidia is the sister genus of Stipagrostis, an important C4 genus from Africa and Southwest Asia.[4]

Species[2][5]

Sartidia angolensis (C.E.Hubb.) De Winter – Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Sartidia dewinteri Munday & Fish – Mpumalanga (South Africa), Swaziland
Sartidia isaloensis Voronts., Razanatsoa & Besnard – Madagascar
Sartidia jucunda (Schweick.) De Winter – Limpopo (South Africa)
Sartidia perrieri (A.Camus) Bourreil – Madagascar (extinct)
Sartidia vanderystii (De Wild.) De Winter – Democratic Republic of the Congo

References

De Winter, B. (1963). "Notes on the genus Aristida". Kirkia. 3: 132–137. JSTOR 23500816.
Vorontsova, M.S.; Haevermans, T.; Haevermans, A.; Razanatsoa, J.; Lundgren, M.R.; Besnard, G. (2015). "The Genus Sartidia (Poaceae: Aristidoideae) in Madagascar". Systematic Botany. 40 (2): 448–453. doi:10.1600/036364415X688367. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 83684378.
RBG Kew: GrassBase - Sartidia description
Besnard, G.; Christin, P.-A.; Malé, P.-J.G.; Lhuillier, E.; Lauzeral, C.; Coissac, E.; Vorontsova, M.S. (2014). "From museums to genomics: old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition". Journal of Experimental Botany. 65 (22): 6711–6721. doi:10.1093/jxb/eru395. ISSN 0022-0957. PMID 25258360. open access
Tropicos – Sartidia De Winter