Exotheca

Exotheca is a monotypic genus of African and Southeast Asian plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Exotheca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Andropogoninae
Genus: Exotheca
Andersson
Species:
E. abyssinica
Binomial name
Exotheca abyssinica
(Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson
Synonyms[1]
  • Anthistiria abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich.
  • Andropogon exothecus Hack.
  • Sorghum exothecum (Hack.) Kuntze
  • Hyparrhenia abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Roberty
  • Andropogon monatherus A.Rich.
  • Hyparrhenia monathera (A.Rich.) Schweinf.
  • Sorghum monatherum (A.Rich.) Kuntze
  • Cymbopogon chevalieri A.Camus
  • Exotheca chevalieri (A.Camus) A.Camus ex M.Schmid

The only known species is Exotheca abyssinica, which has a disjunct (discontinuous) distribution. It is native to Vietnam and also to eastern and southeastern Africa (from Eritrea to Mozambique).[1][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Andersson, Nils Johan 1856. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 2: 253-255 description in Latin; figure captions on page 255
  3. Andersson, Nils Johan 1856. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 2: plate 3, figures a-h at lower right line drawings of Exotheca abyssinica
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Lewalle, J. (1970). Liste floristique et répartition altitudinale de la flore du Burundi occidental: 1-84. Université officielle de Bujumbura.
  6. Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  7. Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
  8. Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique , n.s., 132: 1-127.
  9. Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  10. Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  11. Camus, Aimée Antoinette 1919. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 25: 134-136 description in Latin, commentary in French; as Cymbopogon chevalieri


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