Eriocaulaceae
Eriocaulon

Eriocaulon porembskii S.M.Phillips & Mesterházy

First published in Kew Bull. 70(1)-5: 7 (2015)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Tropical Africa. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Burkina, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Bulletin

  • Ansari, R. & Balakrishnan, N. P. (2009). The Family Eriocaulaceae in India (revised edition). Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.
  • Bongard, A. G. H. (1831). Essaimonographique sur les espècesd’Eriocaulon du Brésil. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 1: 635.
  • Brown, N. E. (1901). Eriocaulaceae. In: D. Oliver (ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa 8: 237. Lovell Reeve & Co., London.
  • Cheek, M., Onana, J.-M. & Pollard, B. J. (2000). The Plants of Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge, Cameroon. A Conservation Checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hutchinson, J. (1936). Flora of West Tropical Africa Ed. 1, 2: 326. Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.
  • Körnicke, F. A. (1854 publ. 1856). Monographiascripta de Eriocaulaceis. Linnaea 27: 561 – 692.
  • Körnicke, F. A. (1867). Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi iii. 240.
  • Lecomte, H. (1908). Procédés de dissémination des fruits et des graines chez les Ériocaulacées. J. Bot.(Morot) sér. 2, 1: 129 – 136.
  • Lecomte, H. (1908, publ. 1909). Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 643, 647.
  • Meikle, R. D. (1968a). Notes on the Eriocaulaceae of West Tropical Africa. Kew Bull.: 141 – 144.
  • Meikle, R. D. (1968b). Eriocaulaceae. In: F. N. Hepper (ed.), Flora of West Tropical Africa, Ed. 2, 3: 57 – 67. Crown Agents, London.
  • Moldenke, H. N. (1946a). The known geographic distribution of the members of the Eriocaulaceae. Moldenke, New York.
  • Moldenke, H. N. (1946b). Nomenclatural notes III. Phytologia 2: 129 – 151.
  • Moldenke, H. N. (1950). Additional notes on the Eriocaulaceae. V. Phytologia 3: 382 – 400.
  • Phillips, S. M. (1996). Some new African taxa of Eriocaulon, with notes on their taxonomic position. Kew Bull. 51: 625 – 647.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Phillips, S. M. (1998). Two new species of Eriocaulon from West Africa. Kew Bull. 53: 943 – 947.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Rafinesque, C. S. (1832). Atlantic J. 121. Philadelphia.GoogleScholar
  • Ruhland, W. O. E. (1899). Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 27: 84.
  • Ruhland, W. O. E. (1903). Eriocaulaceae. In: A. Engler, Pflanzenreich 13 (4, 30): 1 – 294. W. Engelmann, Leipzig.
  • Van Heurck, H. (1870). Observationesbotanicae et descriptiones plantarum novarumherbarii van Heurckiani 1. F. Baggerman, Anvers, R. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin.
  • Zhang, Z. (1999). Monographie der GattungEriocaulon in Ostasien. DissertationesBotanicae Band 313. J. Cramer. Berlin, Stuttgart.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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