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Bouteloua

Grama grass
Bouteloua curtipendula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Boutelouinae
Stapf
Genus: Bouteloua
Lag. 1805 not Hornem. ex P. Beauv. 1812[1][2]
Type species
Bouteloua racemosa
Synonyms[3][1]
List
  • Actinochloa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult., nom. superfl.
  • Antichloa Steud., name not validly published
  • Aristidium (Endl.) Lindl.
  • Atheropogon Muhl. ex Willd.
  • Botelua Lag., orth. var.
  • Buchloe Engelm.
  • Buchlomimus Reeder, C.Reeder & Rzed.
  • Bulbilis Raf.
  • Calanthera Hook.
  • Casiostega Galeotti
  • Cathestecum J.Presl
  • Chondrosum Desv.
  • Corethrum Vahl
  • Cyclostachya Reeder & C.Reeder
  • Erucaria Cerv., nom. illeg.
  • Eutriana Trin.
  • Fourniera Scribn., nom. illeg.
  • Griffithsochloa G.J.Pierce
  • Heterosteca Desv.
  • Lasiostega Benth., illegitimate homonym
  • Nestlera Steud., illegitimate homonym
  • Opizia J.Presl
  • Pentarrhaphis Kunth
  • Polyodon Kunth
  • Polyschistis J.Presl
  • Pringleochloa Scribn.
  • Soderstromia C.V.Morton
  • Strombodurus Steud., name not validly published
  • Triaena Kunth
  • Triathera Desv.

Bouteloua is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae.[4][5] Members of the genus are commonly known as grama grass.[6]

Description

The top of a flower spike of Bouteloua hirsuta ([hairy grama), showing the flattened rachis

Bouteloua includes both annual and perennial grasses, which frequently form stolons.[7] Species have an inflorescence of 1 to 80 racemes or spikes positioned alternately on the culm (stem). The rachis (stem) of the spike is flattened. The spikelets are positioned along one side of the spike. Each spikelet contains one fertile floret, and usually one sterile floret.[8]

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by Mariano Lagasca in 1805.[3] It was named for Claudio and Esteban Boutelou, 19th-century Spanish botanists.[9][10] David Griffiths produced a 1912 monograph on the genus.[7]

Species

Species of Bouteloua include:[3][6][11][12][13]

Distribution

Bouteloua is found only in the Americas, with most diversity centered in the southwestern United States.[7] It also occurs in the Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve of Cuba.[14]

Uses

Many species are important livestock forage, especially Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama).[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Bouteloua". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  2. ^ "Bouteloua". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  3. ^ a b c "Bouteloua Lag." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  4. ^ Lagasca y Segura, Mariano. 1805. Variedades de Ciencias, Literatura y Artes 2(4,21): 134
  5. ^ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  6. ^ a b "Bouteloua". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
  7. ^ a b c d Gould, Frank W. (1951). Grasses of Southwestern United States. Tucson: University of Arizona. pp. 139–140. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. ^ Sun, Bi-xing; Phillips, Sylvia M. "Bouteloua". Flora of China. Vol. 22 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  9. ^ Peterson, P. M. & Y. Herrera-Arrieta. 2001. Bouteloua. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 41: 20–33
  10. ^ Gould, F. W. 1980. The genus Bouteloua (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 66(3): 348–416
  11. ^ "Species Records of Bouteloua". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2009-05-08. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
  12. ^ "Bouteloua". County-level distribution maps from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
  13. ^ Gould, F. W. & R. Moran. 1981. The grasses of Baja California, Mexico. Memoir San Diego Society of Natural History 12: 1–140
  14. ^ Ciénaga de Zapata National Park, on whc.unesco.org.