| Leptothrium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cynodonteae |
| Subtribe: | Hubbardochloinae |
| Genus: | Leptothrium Kunth 1829, conserved name, not Kunth 1816 (Orchidaceae) |
| Type species | |
| Leptothrium rigidum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Leptothrium is a genus of African, Asian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[2]
- Leptothrium rigidum Kunth - Jamaica, Hispaniola, Colombia, Venezuela
- Leptothrium senegalense (Kunth) Clayton - Africa from Cape Verde to Tanzania and Egypt; Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan
- homonym
The name Leptothrium in its current sense was coined by Karl Sigismund Kunth in 1829.[4] The same author had used the same name earlier, in 1816, to refer to a species of orchid.[5] This appears to have been in error, with the name merely listed as a synonym, but the name was nevertheless published so it must be considered a homonym. One species name was coined in 1816 using this homonym, i.e.
- Leptothrium lineare (Jacq.) Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth 1816, syn of Isochilus linearis (Jacq.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton 1813[6][7]
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ The Plant List search for Leptothrium
- ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1829. Révision des Graminées 1: 156 in Latin
- ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 340
- ^ Tropicos, Leptothrium Kunth 1816
- ^ The International Plant Names Index