Andropogon L.
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Depth range based on 16 specimens in 2 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 0.5
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:48
Specimens with Sequences:48
Specimens with Barcodes:38
Species:18
Species With Barcodes:9
Public Records:13
Public Species:3
Public BINs:0
Andropogon (common names: beard grass, bluestem grass, broomsedge) is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, native to much of Asia, Africa, and the Americas as well as southern Europe and various oceanic islands.[4][5][6][7][8]
There are over 100 species.[4][3][9]
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Species[edit]
- formerly included[3]
Many species once included in Andropogon are now regarded as better suited to other genera, including Agenium Anadelphia Apluda Arthraxon Bothriochloa Capeochloa Capillipedium Chrysopogon Cymbopogon Dichanthium Diheteropogon Elionurus Elymandra Eragrostis Eulalia Garnotia Gymnopogon Hemarthria Heteropogon Hyparrhenia Hyperthelia Ischaemum Parahyparrhenia Pentameris Polytrias Pseudopogonatherum Pseudosorghum Saccharum Schizachyrium Sorghastrum Sorghum Spodiopogon Themeda Trachypogon
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References[edit]
- ^ lectotype designated by Green, International Botanical Congress Cambridge (England), 1930. Nomenclature. Proposals by British Botanists: 155-195 (1929)
- ^ Tropicos, Andropogon L.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. (2008). "Andropogon". The Grass Genera of the World. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1045-1047 in Latin
- ^ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Andropogon
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 623 须芒草属 xu mang cao shu Andropogon Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1045. 1753.
- ^ The Plant List search for Andropogon
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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, of paired or digitate (occasionally single) racemes, sometimes numerous and crowded into a spathate false panicle; racemes lacking homogamous pairs; internodes and pedicels filiform to obovoid. Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened or squeezed between pedicel and internode; callus obtuse, inserted in the concave top of the internode; lower glume membranous to coriaceous, mostly flat, concave or deeply grooved on the back, 2-keeled; upper glume with or without an awn; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, 2-lobed, with a conspicuous awn from the sinus. Pedicellate spikelet male or barren (sometimes 0), usually awnless. Similar to Ischaemum. See the note under that genus.
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Holotype for Andropogon indetonsus Sohns
Catalog Number: US 2182180
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): B. Maguire & C. K. Maguire
Year Collected: 1954
Locality: Serra Tepequem, Terr. do Rio Branco., Brazil, South America
Elevation (m): 1000 to 1200
- Holotype: Sohns, E. R. 1957. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 269.
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