Kerriochloa

Kerriochloa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Ischaeminae
Genus: Kerriochloa
C.E.Hubb.[1]
Species:
K. siamensis
Binomial name
Kerriochloa siamensis
Synonyms[2][3][4]
  • Ischaemum siamense (C.E.Hubb.) Roberty
  • Kerriochloa siamensis var. dalatensis A.Camus
  • Kerriochloa siamensis var. sabulicola A.Camus

Kerriochloa is a genus of Southeast Asian plants in the grass family.[5] The only known species is Kerriochloa siamensis, native to Thailand and Vietnam.[2][6]

The genus name of Kerriochloa is in honour of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish medical doctor.[7] The Latin specific epithet of siamensis means coming from Siam (the old name for Thailand.[8] Both genus and species were first described and published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. Vol.35 on table 3494 in 1950.[6]

  1. ^ Hubbard, Charles Edward 1951. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 35: plate 3494.
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Tropicos search for Kerriochloa
  4. ^ Camus, Aimée Antoinette 1957. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, séries. 2, vol 29: page 189
  5. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  6. ^ a b "Kerriochloa siamensis C.E.Hubb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  7. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.