Cleistogenes

Genus of grasses

Cleistogenes
Cleistogenes serotina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Orininae
Genus: Cleistogenes
Keng
Type species
Cleistogenes serotina
(L.) Keng.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Kengia Packer

Cleistogenes is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family.[3]

The name Cleistogenes was for a time considered an invalidly published name synonymous with Kengia, but revisions to the Code of Nomenclature have reversed this situation. Cleistogenes is now the correct name.[4][5]

Species[1][6]
formerly included[1]

see Orinus

  • Cleistogenes kokonorica - Orinus kokonorica
  • Cleistogenes thoroldii - Orinus thoroldii

References

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta, Taxon 43: 123 (1994)
  3. ^ Flora of China, Vol. 22 Page 460 隐子草属 yin zi cao shu Cleistogenes Keng, Sinensia. 5: 147. 1934.
  4. ^ Keng, Yi Li 1934. Sinensia 5: 147
  5. ^ Tropicos, Cleistogenes Keng
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Cleistogenes
Taxon identifiers
Cleistogenes


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