Chloris (Plantae)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Chloridoideae
Tribus: Cynodonteae
Subtribus: Eleusininae
Genus: Chloris
Species: C. affinis – C. amethystea – C. andropogonoides – C. arenaria – C. barbata – C. berazainiae – C. boliviensis – C. bournei – C. burmensis – C. castilloniana – C. clementis – C. cruciata – C. cubensis – C. cucullata – C. diluta – C. divaricata – C. ekmanii – C. filiformis – C. flabellata – C. flagellifera – C. formosana – C. gayana – C. halophila – C. humbertiana – C. jubaensis – C. lobata – C. mensensis – C. montana – C. mossambicensis – C. nutans – C. orthonoton – C. paniculata – C. parvispicula – C. pectinata – C. pilosa – C. pumilio – C. pycnothrix – C. quinquesetica – C. radiata – C. robusta – C. ruahensis – C. rufescens – C. sagrana – C. sesquiflora – C. submutica – C. suringarii – C. texensis – C. truncata – C. ventricosa – C. verticillata – C. virgata – C. wightiana – C. woodii
Nothospecies: C. × subdolichostachya

Name

Chloris Sw., Prodr. [O. P. Swartz] 25 (1788).

Type species: Chloris cruciata (L.) Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 25 (1788)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
- Chlorostis Raf., Précis Découv. Somiol.: 26 (1814).
- Ochthochloa Edgew., J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 11: 26, 27 (1842).
- Agrostomia Cerv., Naturaleza (Madrid) 1870: 345 (1870).
- Lintonia Stapf, Hooker's Icon. Pl. 30: t. 2949 (1911).
- Negria Chiov., Ann. Bot. (Rome) 10: 410 (1912), nom. illeg.
- Joannegria Chiov., Ann. Bot. (Rome) 11: 231 (1913).
- Pterochloris (A.Camus) A.Camus, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., II, 29: 349 (1957).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Cosmopolita
- - Afghanistan, Alabama, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Congo, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Guinea, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Utah, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wyoming, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Introduced into:
  - Amur, Ascension, Belgium, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, China North-Central, China South-Central, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Cook Is., Czechoslovakia, Desventurados Is., East Himalaya, Easter Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hawaii, Inner Mongolia, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kermadec Is., Khabarovsk, Korea, Lebanon-Syria, Line Is., Manchuria, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mongolia, Mozambique Channel I, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Caucasus, Ogasawara-shoto, Oregon, Palestine, Phoenix Is., Primorye, Qinghai, Samoa, Sardegna, Society Is., Solomon Is., Spain, St.Helena, Sumatera, Tibet, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Tuamotu, Tunisia, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuelan Antilles, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Wisconsin, Xinjiang

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Swartz, O. 1788. Nova genera & species plantarum seu Prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783–87 digessit Olof Swartz. M. D. X+152 pp., index. M.Swederi, Holmiae [Stockholm] etc. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Herrera-Arrieta, Y. 2015. A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Eleusininae with a new genus, Micrachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 64(3): 445–467. DOI: 10.12705/643.5 Full text (with link to PDF). Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Chloris (Plantae). Published online. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 31.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Chloris in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2016 May 13. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Chloris. Published online. Accessed: 31 Oct. 2013.
Tropicos.org 2013. Chloris. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 31 Oct. 2013.

Vernacular names

English: Windmill Grasses
suomi: Viuhkaheinät

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