Echinaria

Echinaria is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4] The only known species is Echinaria capitata, native to the Mediterranean Region as well as the Southwest and Central Asia (from Portugal and Morocco to Kazakhstan).[1][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Echinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Poodae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Sesleriinae
Genus: Echinaria
Desf. [1799], nom. cons., non Fabric. 1759 (syn. of Cenchrus)
Species:
E. capitata
Binomial name
Echinaria capitata
(L.) Desf.
Synonyms[1]
  • Panicastrella Moench
  • Reimbolea Debeaux
  • Cenchrus capitatus L.
  • Panicastrella capitata (L.) Moench
  • Echinaria pumila Willk.
  • Echinaria capitata var. pumila (Willk.) Willk.
  • Echinaria capitata var. todaroana Ces.
  • Echinaria spicata Debeaux
  • Reimbolea spicata Debeaux
  • Echinaria todaroana (Ces.) Cif. & Giacom.

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Desfontaines, René Louiche. 1799. Flora Atlantica 2: 385-386 in Latin
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Altervista Flora Italiana, gener Echinaria
  5. Bor, N.L. (1968). Flora of Iraq 9: 1-588. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
  6. Bor, N.L. (1970). Flora Iranica 70: 1-573. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien.
  7. Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1985). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 9: 1-724. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
  8. Meikle, R.D. (1985). Flora of Cyprus 2: 833-1970. The Bentham-Moxon Trust Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  9. Fedorov, A.A. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Russia. The European part and bordering regions 1: 1-546. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Broekfield.
  10. Danin, A. (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina area: 1-517. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
  11. Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Conspectus Florae Caucasi 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  12. Meyer, F.K. (2011). Beiträge zur Flora von Albanien. Haussknechtia , Beih. 15: 1-220.


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