Capillipedium (common name scented-tops)[2] is a genus of plants in the grass family.[3][4][5] They are native to Africa, Asia, Australia, and certain islands in the Western Pacific.[6][7]

Capillipedium
Capillipedium parviflorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Andropogoninae
Genus: Capillipedium
Stapf
Type species
Capillipedium parviflorum
Synonyms[1]

Capillipedium mistryi is an exception in the genus from India in which solid instead of translucent pedicels are seen and spikelets are multispiculated, racemes comprising up to 25 spikelets.[3] A recently described species, C. yashwantraoi, from Madhya Pradesh, India has been subsumed under the former as a new heterotypic synonym.[8]

Species[1][9]
formerly included[1]

see Hemisorghum

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Atlas of Living Australia, Capillipedium Stapf, Scented-tops
  3. ^ a b Landge, Shahid Nawaz (23 April 2021). "Capillipedium mistryi (Andropogoneae, Poaceae): a new remarkable species from central India". Phytotaxa. 498 (1): 051–057. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.498.1.6 – via Magnolia Press.
  4. ^ Stapf, Otto. 1917. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 11, 169
  5. ^ Tropicos, Capillipedium Stapf
  6. ^ Flora of Pakistan, Capillipedium Stapf
  7. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 605 细柄草属 xi bing cao shu Capillipedium Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa. 9: 169. 1917.
  8. ^ Landge, Shahid Nawaz (May 2023). "On the taxonomic identity of Capillipedium mistryi A. P. Tiwari & Landge (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) and synonymisation of C. yashwantraoi Tarbej & Potdar as its new heterotypic synonym". Nordic Journal of Botany. 2023 (6): e03986. doi:10.1111/njb.03986.
  9. ^ The Plant List search for Capillipedium
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