Sohnsia

Sohnsia is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3] The only known species is Sohnsia filifolia, native to the States of San Luis Potosí and Querétaro in northeastern Mexico.[1][4][5] It is dioecious, with its chromosome number being 2n = 20.[6]

Sohnsia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Genus: Sohnsia
Airy Shaw
Species:
S. filifolia
Binomial name
Sohnsia filifolia
Synonyms[1]
  • Calamochloa E.Fourn. 1877, non Calamochloe Rchb. 1828
  • Eufournia Reeder
  • Calamochloa filifolia E.Fourn.
  • Eufournia filifolia (E.Fourn.) Reeder

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth. 1965. Kew Bulletin 18(2): 272.
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México D.F.
  5. Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una Sinopsis Florística 10: 7–236
  6. Singh, D. N. (1972). "Sex and Supernumerary Chromosomes in the Dioecious Grass Sohnsia filifolia". Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology. 14: 175–180. doi:10.1139/g72-020.


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