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 (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 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

  • Capillipedium venustum - Hemisorghum venustum

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Atlas of Living Australia, Capillipedium Stapf, Scented-tops
  3. 1 2 Landge, Shahid Nawaz (23 April 2021). "Capillipedium mistryi (Andropogoneae, Poaceae): a new remarkable species from central India". Phytotaxa. 498 (1): 051–057 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 via https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370794207_On_the_taxonomic_identity_of_Capillipedium_mistryi_A_P_Tiwari_Landge_Poaceae_Andropogoneae_and_synonymization_of_C_yashwantraoi_Tarbej_Potdar_as_its_new_heterotypic_synonym. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)
  9. The Plant List search for Capillipedium


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