Gaudinia

Genus of plants

Gaudinia
Gaudinia fragilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Poodae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Aveninae
Genus: Gaudinia
P.Beauv.
Type species
Gaudinia fragilis
Synonyms[1]
  • Arthrostachya Link
  • Cylichnium Dulac
  • Falimiria Besser ex Rchb.
  • Meringurus Murb.

Gaudinia is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5]

The genus name is a tribute to Swiss botanist Jean François Aimé Théophile Philippe Gaudin (1766-1833).

Species[1][6]
  • Gaudinia coarctata - Azores
  • Gaudinia fragilis - Mediterranean + nearby regions from Portugal + Morocco to Turkey
  • Gaudinia hispanica - Spain
  • Gaudinia maroccana - Morocco
formerly included[1]

see Helictochloa Ventenata

  • Gaudinia biebersteinii - Ventenata macra
  • Gaudinia fragilis - Ventenata macra
  • Gaudinia planiculmis - Helictochloa planiculmis
  • Gaudinia tenuis - Ventenata dubia

References

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Wikispecies has information related to Gaudinia.
  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 95 in Latin
  4. ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XIX (19), figure V (5 a-d) line drawing of Gaudinia fragilis, figure captions on caption page 13
  5. ^ Stace, C. A. & T. G. Tutin. 1978. 'A new species of Gaudinia from Spain'. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 76: 353–356
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Gaudinia
Taxon identifiers
Gaudinia


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