Acostia is a genus of South American plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5]
| Acostia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Paspaleae |
| Subtribe: | Paspalinae |
| Genus: | Acostia Swallen |
| Species: | A. gracilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acostia gracilis | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The only known species is Acostia gracilis, found only in Ecuador.[1][6] It is listed as an endangered species.[7]
The genus name of Acostia is in honour of Misael Acosta Solís (1910–1994), an Ecuadorian naturalist.[8] The Latin specific epithet of gracilis means "slender".[9] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.12 on page 109 in 1968.[6] The genus was described of a single specimen, and between its first description in 1968 and 1989 no further collections have been made.[5] In 1989, Webster, Kirkbride and Reyna treated it as a member of the genus Panicum under the new combination Panicum acostia, since Panicum gracile is unavailable, and in 2022 it has been suggested by Gallaher and co-authors that it should be considered either to form a separate genus or as a member of the genus Axonopus.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Archived from the original on 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ↑ Swallen, Jason Richard 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 109
- 1 2 Webster, R. D., J. H. Kirkbride & J. V. Reyna. 1989. New World genera of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Sida 13(4): 393–417
- 1 2 "Acostia Swallen | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ↑ Laegaard, S. & Pitman, N. 2004. Panicum acostia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ↑ Gallaher, Timothy J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Soreng, Robert J.; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Li, De‐Zhu; Clark, Lynn G.; Tyrrell, Christopher D.; Welker, Cassiano A.D.; Kellogg, Elizabeth A.; Teisher, Jordan K. (May 2022). "Grasses through space and time: An overview of the biogeographical and macroevolutionary history of Poaceae". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 60 (3): 522–569. doi:10.1111/jse.12857. ISSN 1674-4918.
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