Poaceae

Ctenium Panz.

First published in Ideen Rev. Gräser: 38 (1813), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa, Madagascar, E. U.S.A. to S. Tropical America.

Distribution

Doubtfully present in:

Saudi Arabia

Native to:

Alabama, Angola, Benin, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Ethiopia, Florida, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mozambique, New Jersey, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Panamá, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Carolina, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Virginia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Saudi Arabia

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

  • Bentham, G. (1849). In: J. Hooker, Niger Flora. H. Bailliere, London.
  • Berhaut 1954: 10
  • Berhaut, R. P. (1954). Nouveautés sur les Graminées du Sénégal. Mém. Soc. Bot. France 34: 9 – 12.
  • Chevalier, A. (1934). Etude sur les Prairies de l’Ouest africain. Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 14 (150): 128.
  • Chiovenda, E. (1897). Contribuzioni alla conoscenza della flora dell’Africa orientale. XVI. Graminaceae somalenses a Dr. D. Riva in expeditione ruspoliana lectae. Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 7: 58 – 78.
  • Chiovenda, E. (1919). Plantae e Catanga a Cl. Dr. H. Bovone lectae. N. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 26: 58 – 85.
  • Clayton, W. D. (1960). Studies in the Gramineae: I. Kew Bull. 14: 239 – 240.
  • Clayton, W. D. (1963). The African species of Ctenium. Studies in the Gramineae IV. Kew Bull. 16: 471 – 475.
  • Clayton, W. D. (1972). Gramineae. In: F. N. Hepper (ed), Flora of West Tropical Africa 3 (2): 349 – 512. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London.
  • Clayton, W. D., Govaerts, R. Harman, K. T., Williamson, H. & Vorontsova, M. (2014). World Checklist of Poaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ accessed 12 Feb 2014.
  • Clayton, W. D., Phillips, S. M. & Renvoize, S. A. (1974). Gramineae. In: R. M. Polhill (ed), Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177 – 449. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London.
  • Cope, T. A. (1999). Cynodonteae. In: G. V. Pope & E. S. Martins (eds), Flora Zambesiaca 10 (2): 204. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • GPWG (Grass Phylogeny Working Group) (2012). New Grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins. New Phytol. 193: 304 – 312.
  • Hackel, E. (1887). Contribuições para o estudo da Flora da Costa occidental d’Africa, Gramineae. Bol. Soc. Brot. 5: 228 – 230.
  • Kunth, K. S. (1830). Révision des Graminées 2, t. 59: 295 Librarie-Gide, Paris.
  • Kuntze, C. E. O. (1891). Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 375 – 1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig.
  • Lebrun, J.-P. (1976). Premier supplement au “Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Tchad Méridional”. Adansonia ser. 2, 15 (3): 381 – 390.
  • Longhi-Wagner, H. M. & Cope, T. A. (2003). Ctenium longiglume (Poaceae), a new species from Africa. Kew Bull. 58: 229 – 231.
  • Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D. (1841). Florae Africae australioris illustrationes monographicae 1. Sumtibus Prausnitzianis, Glogaviae.
  • Panzer 1813: 61
  • Panzer, G. W. F. (1813, publ. 1814). Ideen zu einer künftigen Revision der Gattungen der Gräser, 1 – 62. Denkschr. K. Bayer. Akad. Wissensch. 4: 253 – 312.
  • Pilger, R. K. F. (1924). Die afrikanishen Ctenium-Arten des Berliner Herbars. Notizbl. Bot. Garten Berlin 9: 114 – 120.
  • Röpert, D. (ed.) (2000+ [continuously updated]). Digital specimen images at the Herbarium Berolinense”. http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/accessed 13 Feb 2014.
  • Schumacher, C. T. (1827). Berkrivelse af Guineiske planter: som ere fundne af Danske botanikere, isaer af etatsraad Thonning. F. Popp, Kjöbenhavn.
  • Smith, J. G. (1896). A synopsis of the American species of Ctenium. Bot. Gaz. 21(6): 361 – 365.
  • Soreng, R. J., Davidse, G., Peterson, P. M., Zuloaga, F. O., Judziewicz, E. J., Filgueiras, T. S., Morrone, O. & Romaschenko, K. (2013). A world-wide phylogenetic classification of Poaceae (Gramineae). Catalogue of new World Grasses. . Accessed 5 September 2013.
  • Steudel, E. G. (1854). Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart.
  • Thiers, B. [continuously updated]. Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium. http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/. Accessed 4 July 2013.
  • Trinius, C. B. (1829). Species Graminum. v. 3. Imp. Academic Imperialis Scientiarum, St. Petersburg.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Clayton in Kew Bull. 16: 471 (1963).
  • Pilger in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 9: 114 (1924)
  • in Denkschr. Acad. Muench. 1813: 288, t. 13 (1814), nom. cons.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Clayton in Kew Bull. 16: 471–475 (1963), nom. conserv.
  • in Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 4: 288 (1814).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • W. D. Clayton in K.B. 16: 471 (1963), nom. conserv.
  • in Denkschr. Acad. Muench.: 288 (1813)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 28, 2011 Guedes, M.L.; Giulietti, A.M.; Bautista, H.P.; G.S. [721] Brazil K001075055 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Burchell, W.J. [5396] Brazil K001075047 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Glaziou, A.F.M. [22399] Brazil K001075052 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Heringer, E.P.; Filgueiras, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.S. [5085] Brazil K001075056 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Mori, S.A.; Mitchell, J.D.; Silva, L.A.M. [16649] Brazil K001075043 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Plowman, T.C. [9938] Brazil K001075058 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Burchell, W.J. [5178] Brazil K001075048 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Irwin, H.S.; Soderstrom, T.R. [5669] Brazil K001075044 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Riedel [1050] Brazil K001075049 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Burchell, W.J. [5885] Brazil K001075046 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Glaziou, A.F.M. [22399] Brazil K001075054 Yes
Jan 1, 1987 Furlan, A.; Pirani, J.R.; Kawasaki, M.L.; Castro, N.M.; Diacui, J.; Amaral, M.C.E. [CFCR2014] Brazil K000003282 Yes
Jan 1, 1987 Glaziou, A.F.M. [22400] Brazil K001075053 Yes
Jan 1, 1987 Longhi-Wagner, H.M.; Giulietti, A.M.; Harley, R.M.; Arraes, M.G.; Stannard, B.; Lewis, G.P. [CFCR7084] Brazil K000003284 Yes
Jan 1, 1987 Lewis, G.P.; de Carvalho, A.M.; Hage, J.L. [862] Brazil K000003283 Yes
Jan 1, 1981 Heringer, E.P.; Filgueiras, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.S.; Heringer Salles, A.E.; Chagas e Silva, F. [1730] Brazil K001075059 Yes
Jan 1, 1973 Irwin, H.S.; Souza, R.; Santos, R.R. [10550] Brazil K001075051 Yes
Jan 1, 1972 Burchell, W.J. [5396] Brazil K001075050 Yes
Jan 1, 1972 Widgren, J.F. [s.n.] Brazil K001075045 Yes
Wood, J.R.I.; Pozo, P.; Huaylla, H. [24706] Bolivia K000309544 Yes
Wood, J.R.I.; Pozo, P.; Huaylla, H. [24631] Bolivia K000309545 Yes
Konomou, G. [657] Guinea K001418296 Type No
Simbiano, F.J.; Konaté, L. [309] Guinea K001970130 No
Wood, J.R.I.; Villaroel, D.; Renvoize, S. [25851] Bolivia K000501755 Yes
Oldenburger, F.H.F.; Mecenas, V.V. [1507] Brazil K001075057 Yes
Wood, J.R.I. [17922] Bolivia K000501754 Yes
Brazil K000308999 Type Yes

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

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