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Sclerodactylon
The grass in the foreground is Sclerodactylon macrostachyum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Genus: Sclerodactylon
Stapf
Species: S. macrostachyum
Binomial name
Sclerodactylon macrostachyum
(Benth.) A.Camus
Synonyms
  • Eleusine macrostachya Benth.
  • Eleusine juncea Bojer
  • Sclerodactylon juncifolium Stapf (type species of Sclerodactylon)

Sclerodactylon is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean.

Species

The only known species is Sclerodactylon macrostachyum, native to Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Aldabra, Seychelles, and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

formerly included

see Acrachne

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Stapf, Otto. 1911. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1911: 318-319 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris.
  5. Fosberg, F.R. & Renvoize, S.A. (1980). The Flora of Aldabra and neighbouring islands: 1-358. Crown, London.
  6. The Plant Lise search for Sclerodactylon
Taxon identifiers
Sclerodactylon
Sclerodactylon macrostachyum


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