Chasechloa
Sign in to saveChasechloa is a grass genus in the tribe Paniceae (subtribe Boivinellinae), endemic to Madagascar. It was described by French botanist Aimée Antoinette Camus in 1948, who named it in honour of Mary Agnes Chase. Its two species were also classified in the genera Echinolaena and Panicum, but phylogenetic analysis confirmed that they form a distinct lineage.
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
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- Mary Agnes Chase
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Chasechloa is a grass genus in the tribe Paniceae (subtribe Boivinellinae), endemic to Madagascar. It was described by French botanist Aimée Antoinette Camus in 1948, who named it in honour of Mary Agnes Chase. Its two species were also classified in the genera Echinolaena and Panicum, but phylogenetic analysis confirmed that they form a distinct lineage.
Species of the genus are erect grasses, tall. They have ovate to linear leaves. The inflorescence is a terminal, one-sided raceme, sometimes in clusters of up to five. The glumes have prominent stiff hairs. The spikelets are paired and have no awns. The genus can be distinguished from similar forest grass species in Acroceras, Brachiaria, Urochloa and Poecilostachys by its denser and thicker racemes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chasechloa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.