Melinis

Melinis is a genus of African and Arabian plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Melinis
Melinis repens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Melinidinae
Genus: Melinis
P.Beauv.
Type species
Melinis minutiflora
Synonyms[1]

The generic name is derived from the Greek meline meaning "millet".[5]

Species[1][6]
  • Melinis ambigua
  • Melinis amethystea
  • Melinis angolensis
  • Melinis ascendens
  • Melinis biaristata
  • Melinis drakensbergensis
  • Melinis effusa
  • Melinis gossweileri
  • Melinis kallimorpha
  • Melinis longiseta
  • Melinis macrochaeta
  • Melinis minutiflora
  • Melinis nerviglumis
  • Melinis repens
  • Melinis reynaudioides
  • Melinis rupicola
  • Melinis scabrida
  • Melinis subglabra
  • Melinis tanatricha
  • Melinis tenuissima
  • Melinis tomentosa
  • Melinis welwitschii
formerly included[1]

numerous species now regarded as better suited to Tricholaena

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 54 description in Latin, commentary in French
  4. Tropicos, Melinis P. Beauv.
  5. Quattrocchi U. (2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. 1. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 1275. ISBN 978-0-8493-1303-5.
  6. The Plant List search for Melinis


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