Lasiacis

Lasiacis (smallcane)[5] is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, found in the Americas from Mexico and Florida south to Argentina.[1][6][7]

Lasiacis
Lasiacis ligulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Boivinellinae
Genus: Lasiacis
(Griseb.) Hitchc.
Type species
Panicum divaricatum
Synonyms[3][4]
  • Panicum section Lasiacis Griseb.
  • Panicum series. Lasiacis (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Pseudolasiacis (A.Camus) A.Camus

Species

[4][8]

  • Lasiacis anomala Hitchc. - Trinidad, Venezuela, Guayana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia
  • Lasiacis divaricata (L.) Hitchc. - widespread from Mexico and Florida south to Argentina
  • Lasiacis grisebachii (Nash) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico
  • Lasiacis ligulata Hitchc. & Chase - South America, West Indies
  • Lasiacis linearis Swallen - Central America, Chiapas
  • Lasiacis maculata (Aubl.) Urb. - widespread from Mexico and Cuba south to Argentina
  • Lasiacis nigra Davidse - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
  • Lasiacis oaxacensis (Steud.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, Jamaica, Hispaniola
  • Lasiacis procerrima (Hack.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
  • Lasiacis rhizophora (E.Fourn.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, Greater Antilles
  • Lasiacis rugelii (Griseb.) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, Hispaniola, Cuba
  • Lasiacis ruscifolia (Kunth) Hitchc. ex Chase - Florida,[9] Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, West Indies
  • Lasiacis scabrior Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
  • Lasiacis sloanei (Griseb.) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, West Indies
  • Lasiacis standleyi Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America

formerly included

[4] see Acroceras

  • Lasiacis excavata - Acroceras excavatum

References
  1. Hitchcock, Albert Spear 1910. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 15: 16
  2. International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) see §7.3, mandating that the type of the basionym is the type of the derivative taxon
  3. Tropicos, Lasiacis (Griseb.) Hitchc.
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Lasiacis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  6. Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf 1864. Flora of the British West Indian Islands 551-552 as Panicum section Lasiacis
  7. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  8. The Plant List search for Lasiacis
  9. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map, Lasiacis ruscifolia


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