Lycurus
| wolfstails | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Lycurus sp | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Lycurus Kunth |
| Type species | |
| Lycurus phleoides Kunth[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Lycurus is a small genus of New World plants in the grass family, native to North and South America.[3][4]
These grasses are known commonly as wolfstails.[5][6][7]
- Lycurus phalaroides Kunth - Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina
- Lycurus phleoides Kunth - southwestern + south-central USA (AZ UT CO NM TX OK),[9] northern + central Mexico, Bolivia, Peru
- Lycurus setosus (Nutt.) C.Reeder - southwestern + south-central USA (CA NV AZ UT CO NM TX OK KS), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí), northern Argentina
References
- ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S.D.A. Bull. 772: 139 (1920)
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 141-142
- ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plate XLV (45) full-page line drawing of Lycurus phleoides
- ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
- ↑ USDA Plants Profile
- ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ↑ Reeder, Charlotte G. 1985. The genus Lycurus (Gramineae) in North America. Phytologia 57(4): 283–291
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Lycurus phleoides
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