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Echinochlaena

Echinolaena
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Echinolaena inflexa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paspaleae
Genus: Echinolaena
Desv.
Type species
Echinolaena hirta
(syn. of E. inflexa)
Desv.
Synonyms
  • Panicum sect. Echinolaena (Desv.) Nees
  • Echinochlaena Spreng.

Echinolaena is a genus of plants in tribe Paspaleae of the grass family, native to the New World tropics. It includes only two species after the referral of former members to the related genera Hildaea, Ichnanthus, Oedochloa and the more distant Chasechloa (tribe Paniceae) in a 2015 revision.



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