Tridens (plant)

Tridens
Tridens flavus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Pappophorinae
Genus: Tridens
Roem. & Schult.[1]
Type species
Tridens flavus
Synonyms[2]
  • Antonella Caro
  • Gossweilerochloa Renvoize
  • Tricuspis P.Beauv. 1812, illegitimate homonym not Pers. 1806
  • Windsoria Nutt.

Tridens is a genus of perennial grasses in the family Poaceae native to the Americas.[3][4]

Species[2][5][6][7][8]
Formerly included[2]
see Dasyochloa Diplachne Erioneuron
  1. ^ "Genus: Tridens Roem. & Schult". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-02-27. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  2. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Roemer, Johann Jakob & Schultes, Josef August. 1817. Systema Vegetabilium 2: 34, 599-600 in Latin
  4. ^ Tropicos, Tridens Roem. & Schult.
  5. ^ The Plant List search for Tridens
  6. ^ "Tridens". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  7. ^ "GRIN Species Records of Tridens". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  8. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  9. ^ Acedo, C. and F. Llamas. (2003). A new species of Tridens (Poaceae) from Brazil. Systematic Botany 28:2 313-16.