Ratzeburgia is a genus of plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Ratzeburgia
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: Rottboelliinae
Genus: Ratzeburgia
Kunth
Species:
R. pulcherrima
Binomial name
Ratzeburgia pulcherrima
Kunth
Synonyms[2]
  • Aikinia Wall.
  • Ophiuros auriculatus Trin.
  • Mnesithea pulcherrima (Kunth) de Koning & Sosef
  • Aikinia elegans Wall.[1]
  • Rottboellia pulcherrima Wall. ex Kunth
  • Rottboellia elegans (Wall.) Roberty

Species edit

The only known species is Ratzeburgia pulcherrima, found only in Myanmar.[2][5]

Formerly included edit

see Elionurus[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 46, t. 273 1832
  2. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1831. Révision des Graminées, Distribution méthodique de la famille des Graminées 2: 487-488 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  4. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1831. Révision des Graminées, Distribution méthodique de la famille des Graminées plate 158 line drawings of Ratzeburgia pulcherrima
  5. ^ Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford

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