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Chasmopodium

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Chasmopodium

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Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyPoaceae
Observations recorded1,230

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
3
With media
6
Family
Poaceae
Collections
MO, MNHN
Recorded in
Benin

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Poaceae
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genus
taxon name
Chasmopodium
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Category:Chasmopodium
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Encyclopedic overview

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Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family. Species Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf – Sierra Leone, Togo Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf – Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Sudan, Angola Formerly included Chasmopodium purpurascens - synonym of Rottboellia purpurascens

==See also== List of Poaceae genera

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chasmopodium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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