Ortachne is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.[5][6][7]

Ortachne
Ortachne from Plate CXXXI of Hooker's Flora Anatarctica.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Stipodae
Tribe: Stipeae
Genus: Ortachne
Nees ex Steud.
Type species
Ortachne retorta
(syn of O. rariflora)
Synonyms[2]

Parodiella Reeder & C.Reeder 1968, illegitimate homonym not Speg. 1880 (a fungus in Pyrenomycetes)[3][4]

Species[2][8][9]
formerly included[2]

see Aristida

References edit

  1. ^ Tropicos, Ortachne Nees ex Steud.
  2. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Spegazzini, Carlo Luigi. 1880. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 9: 178
  4. ^ Tropicos, Parodiella Speg.
  5. ^ Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von. 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 121 in Latin
  6. ^ Reeder, John Raymond & Reeder, Charlotte Olive. 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 279f., f. 1A–B, D–F, 3
  7. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  8. ^ The Plant List search for Ortachne
  9. ^ Zuloaga, F. O., E. G. Nicora, Z. E. Rúgolo de Agrasar, O. Morrone, J. F. Pensiero & A. M. Cialdella. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 47: 1–178