Mosdenia

Mosdenia is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4] The only known species is Mosdenia leptostachys, native to Angola and Limpopo.[1][5]

Mosdenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Perotidinae
Genus: Mosdenia
Stent
Species:
M. leptostachys
Binomial name
Mosdenia leptostachys
(Ficalho & Hiern) Clayton
Synonyms[1]
  • Mosdenia phleoides (Hack.) Stent
  • Mosdenia transvaalensis Stent
  • Mosdenia waterbergensis Stent
  • Perotis phleoides Hack.
  • Sporobolus leptostachys Ficalho & Hiern

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Stent, Sydney Margaret 1922. Bothalia 1(3): 170, plate 1
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Peterson, P. M., K. Romaschenko & Y. Herrera Arrieta. 2014. A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Cteniinae, Farragininae, Gouiniinae, Gymnopogoninae, Perotidinae, and Trichoneurinae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 63(2): 275–286
  5. Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria


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