Chondrosum

Chondrosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Tribe:	Cynodonteae
Genus:	Chondrosum; Desv.
Type species
	Chondrosum procumbens; (P.Durand) Desv.
Synonyms
	Erucaria Cerv. 1870. illegitimate homonym not Gaertn. 1791 (Brassicaceae); Actinochloa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.; Bouteloua sect. Chondrosum (Desv.) Benth. & Hook. f.; Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) A. Gray; Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) Gould;

Chondrosum is a genus of North American and South American plants in the grass family.^[3]^[4]

Chondrosum is closely related to Bouteloua and considered part of that genus in some publications.^[2]

Chondrosum barbatum (Lag.) Clayton - United States (CA AZ NM TX OK KS CO UT NV MT), Mexico, Argentina
Chondrosum brevisetum (Vasey) Clayton - United States (NM TX), widespread in Mexico
Chondrosum chasei (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí)
Chondrosum elatum (Reeder & C.Reeder) Clayton - Mexico (Colima, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit), Guatemala
Chondrosum eriopodum Torr. - United States (CA AZ NM TX OK KS CO UT NV), Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
Chondrosum eriostachyum (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (Coahuila)
Chondrosum gracile Kunth - widespread in Canada, United States, Mexico; naturalized in China, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia
Chondrosum hirsutum (Lag.) Sweet - widespread in United States + Mexico + Guatemala
Chondrosum karwinskyi E.Fourn. ex Hemsl. Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas)
Chondrosum kayi (Warnock) Clayton - Big Bend region of Texas
Chondrosum parryi E.Fourn. - United States (AZ NM TX), Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa)
Chondrosum pectinatum (Feath.) Clayton USA (TX OK)
Chondrosum scorpioides (Lag.) Kunth - northern + central Mexico
Chondrosum simplex (Lag.) Kunth - United States (AZ NM TX NV UT CO KS NE WY), Mesoamerica, South America
Chondrosum trifidum (Thurb.) Clayton - United States (CA AZ NM TX NV UT), northern Mexico

species now considered better suited to other genera: Bouteloua Chloris

^ ^a ^b ^c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ ^a ^b Tropicos, Chondrosum Desv.
^ Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin. 1810. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 2: 188
^ Clayton, W. D. 1982. Notes on subfamily Chloridoideae (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 37(3): 417–420
^ The Plant List search for Chondrosum
^ Pohl, R. W. 1994. 99. Chondrosum Desv. 6: 292–293. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, genus Bouteloua