Revision of the South American genus Otachyrium (Poaceae, Panicoideae)

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Series: Smithsonian contributions to botany, no. 57

By

Sendulsky, Tatiana.

Soderstrom, Thomas R.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

City of Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984

Notes

A review of this genus of seven species is provided with descriptions and illustrations of each. Of these species, four are described as new: O. aquaticum, O. grandiflorum, O. piligerum, and O. seminudum. Two, O. pterigodium and O. versicolor, are already known in the literature, and one, O. succisum, is a new combination. In addition to its short, subequal glumes, remarkable peculiarities of this panicoid genus are the enlarged palea of the lower staminate floret and the chartaceous, dark and shining or sometimes opaque and greenish, upper hermaphrodite floret, both of which are united at maturity.

Subjects

Botany , Classification , Otachyrium , South America

BHL Collections

Women in Natural History

Call Number

QK1 .S664 no. 57

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.122496
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/84600087
OCLC: 10726704
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51398978