Loudetia

Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species[6][7]
  • Loudetia angolensis - Angola
  • Loudetia annua - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia arundinacea - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia cerata - Chad, Central African Rep
  • Loudetia coarctata - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia cuanzensis - Angola
  • Loudetia demeusei - Congo Republic, Zaïre
  • Loudetia densispica - central + southern Africa
  • Loudetia echinulata - Central African Rep
  • Loudetia esculenta - Sudan
  • Loudetia filifolia - Madagascar, Swaziland, Mpumalanga
  • Loudetia flammida - tropical Africa, South America
  • Loudetia flavida - Oman, tropical + southern Africa
  • Loudetia furtiva - Cameroon
  • Loudetia hordeiformis - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia jaegeriana - Sierra Leone
  • Loudetia kagerensis - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia lanata - southern Africa
  • Loudetia migiurtina - Somalia
  • Loudetia phragmitoides - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia pratii - Central African Rep
  • Loudetia simplex - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa
  • Loudetia tisserantii - Central African Rep
  • Loudetia togoensis - tropical Africa
  • Loudetia vanderystii - Zaire, Congo Republic, Gabon
formerly included[6]

Loudetia
Type specimen of Loudetia simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Tristachyideae
Genus: Loudetia
Hochst. ex Steud. 1854, conserved name not Hochst. ex A. Braun 1841
Type species
Loudetia elegans
Hochst. ex A. Braun.[1]

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya

References

  1. Tropicos, Loudetia Hochst. ex Steud.
  2. Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von. 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 238 in Latin
  3. Phipps, J. B. 1966. Studies in the Arundinelleae, III. Check-list and key to the genera. Kirkia 5: 235–258.
  4. Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420.
  5. Clayton, W. D. 1967. Studies in the Gramineae: XV. Arundinelleae. Kew Bull. 21(1): 119–124
  6. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  7. The Plant List search for Loudetia
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