Ratzeburgia

Ratzeburgia is a genus of plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Ratzeburgia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Rottboelliinae
Genus: Ratzeburgia
Kunth
Species:
R. pulcherrima
Binomial name
Ratzeburgia pulcherrima
Kunth
Synonyms[1]
  • Aikinia Wall.
  • Ophiuros auriculatus Trin.
  • Mnesithea pulcherrima (Kunth) de Koning & Sosef
  • Aikinia elegans Wall.[2]
  • Rottboellia pulcherrima Wall. ex Kunth
  • Rottboellia elegans (Wall.) Roberty

Species

The only known species is Ratzeburgia pulcherrima, found only in Myanmar.[1][5]

Formerly included

see Elionurus[1]

  • Ratzeburgia schimperi - Elionurus royleanus

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 46, t. 273 1832
  3. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1831. Révision des Graminées, Distribution méthodique de la famille des Graminées 2: 487-488 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  4. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1831. Révision des Graminées, Distribution méthodique de la famille des Graminées plate 158 line drawings of Ratzeburgia pulcherrima
  5. Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford
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