Chimaerochloa

Chimaerochloa is a genus of New Guinean plants in the grass family.[2][3]

Chimaerochloa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Danthonioideae
Tribe: Danthonieae
Genus: Chimaerochloa
H.P.Linder
Species:
C. archboldii
Binomial name
Chimaerochloa archboldii
(Hitchc.) Pirie & H.P. Linder
Synonyms[1]

Danthonia archboldii Hitchc.

The genus name of Chimaerochloa is named after Chimera (mythology) as Linder noted; "the grass takes an the appearance of different genera, depending on which character set is investigated. Thus, it can be regarded as a grass that changes its appearance, a chimaera".[4]

The genus was circumscribed by Hans Peter Linder in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.97 (Issue 3) on page 346 in 2010.

Species

The only known species is Chimaerochloa archboldii.[5]

References
  1. The International Plant Names Index
  2. Linder, Hans Peter. 2010. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(3): 346–347, figure 14
  3. Tropicos, Chimaerochloa H.P. Linder
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families


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