Polytrias
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
Subtribe: | Saccharinae |
Genus: | Polytrias Hack. |
Species: | P. indica
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Binomial name | |
Polytrias indica | |
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Polytrias is a genus of Asian, African, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, commonly called Java grass Batiki bluegrass, Indian murainagrass, or toto grass.[4][3] The only known species is Polytrias indica, native to West Africa (from Senegal to Cameroon), Seychelles, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Fiji, and Micronesia. It is also cultivated as a lawn grass in other tropical regions, and naturalized in scattered locations in tropical North and South America.[1][2][5]
References
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 592 单序草属 dan xu cao shu Polytrias Hackel in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(2): 24. 1887.
- ^ a b Tropicos, Polytrias Hack.
- ^ Hackel, Eduard 1887. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 2(2): 24. in German
- ^ Bor, N. L. 1960. Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford
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