Rottboellia

Rottboellia cochinchinensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Panicoideae
Tribus: Andropogoneae
Subtribus: Rottboelliinae
Genus: Rottboellia
Species: R. afraurita – R. aurita – R. balansae – R. campestris – R. cancellata – R. clarkei – R. cochinchinensis – R. coelorachis – R. geminata – R. glandulosa – R. goalparensis – R. helferi – R. impressa – R. laevispica – R. lepidura – R. paradoxa – R. parodiana – R. purpurascens – R. rottboellioides – R. rugosa – R. selloana – R. striata – R. tessellata – R. tuberculosa

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Rottboellia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 October 02. Reference page.

Name

• Rottboellia L.f., Suppl. Pl.: 13 (1782), nom. cons.
• Type species: Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton, Kew Bull. 35: 817 (1981)

Homonyms

• Rottboellia Naezén = Ophiuros C.F.Gaertn., Suppl. Carp.: 3 (1805).

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Stegosia Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 34, 51 (1790)
  • Cymbachne Retz., Observ. Bot. 6: 36 (1791)
  • Coelorachis Brongn. in L.I.Duperrey, Voy. Monde, Phan.: 64 (1831).
  • Robynsiochloa Jacq.-Fél., J. Agric. Trop. Bot. Appl. 7: 406 (1960)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical to Central U.S.A. Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kansas, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Maryland, Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Jersey, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oklahoma, Oman, Panamá, Paraguay, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Introduced into: Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., Peru, Puerto Rico, Windward Is. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. (filius) 1782 ["1781"]. Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, generum plantarum editionis sextae, et specierum plantarum editionis secundae. [XVI]+468 pp. Impensis Orphanotrophei, Brunsvigae [Braunschweig]. BHL Reference page. : 13, 114.

Additional references

• Veldkamp J.F., de Koning R., & Sosef M.S.M. (1986) Generic delimitation of Rottboellia and related genera (Gramineae), Blumea, 31, 281-307.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Rottboellia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 2. Reference page. 
• Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Rottboellia. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 2.
• Tropicos.org 2013. Rottboellia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2 Dec. 2013.
• International Plant Names Index. 2013. Rottboellia. Published online. Accessed: 2 Dec. 2013.

Vernacular names

مصرى: زمير
العربية: زمير
English: itchgrass
日本語: ツノアイアシ属
മലയാളം: റോട്ട്ബൊല്ലിയ
русский: роттбелия
中文: 筒轴茅属

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