Ctenium

Ctenium
Ctenium aromaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Cteniinae
P.M.Peterson, Romasch. & Y.Herrera
Genus: Ctenium
Panz. 1813 not C.E.O. Jensen 1923
Type species
Ctenium carolinianum
(syn of C. aromaticum)
Synonyms
  • Aplocera Raf.
  • Campuloa Desv.
  • Campulosus Desv.
  • Monathera Raf.
  • Monocera Elliott
  • Triatherus Raf.

Ctenium is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family.

Species
  • Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood - United States from Texas to New Jersey
  • Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner - Bahia
  • Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Paraguay
  • Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm. - Brazil
  • Ctenium canescens Benth. West Africa
  • Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll - Brazil
  • Ctenium cirrhosum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Suriname
  • Ctenium concinnum Nees - Africa incl Madagascar
  • Ctenium concissum Swallen - Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia
  • Ctenium crista-castrensis (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen - United States, Canada
  • Ctenium elegans Kunth - Africa
  • Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc. - Georgia, Florida
  • Ctenium ledermannii Pilg. - central Africa
  • Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope - Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia
  • Ctenium newtonii Hack. - Africa
  • Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth - central + southern Mexico
  • Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen - western Mexico
  • Ctenium polystachyum Balansa - Brazil, Paraguay
  • Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton - Guinea, Liberia
  • Ctenium villosum Berhaut - West Africa
formerly included

see Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon

  • Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus
  • Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon tenellus
  • Ctenium nukaviense - Dactyloctenium aegyptium
  • Ctenium rupestre - Enteropogon rupestris
  • Ctenium sechellense - Enteropogon sechellensis
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