Pentameris
Pentameris is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Africa, with a few species in Yemen and on certain islands in the Indian Ocean.[3][4][2]
| Pentameris | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Danthonioideae |
| Tribe: | Danthonieae |
| Genus: | Pentameris P.Beauv. |
| Type species | |
| Pentameris thuarii | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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A significant number of species are endemic to South Africa.[5]
- Species[1]
- Pentameris acinosa - South Africa
- Pentameris airoides - South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia
- Pentameris alticola - South Africa
- Pentameris ampla - South Africa
- Pentameris andringitrensis - Madagascar
- Pentameris argentea - South Africa
- Pentameris aristidoides - South Africa
- Pentameris aristifolia - South Africa
- Pentameris aspera - South Africa
- Pentameris aurea - South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris barbata - South Africa
- Pentameris basutorum - South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris borussica - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Pentameris calcicola - South Africa
- Pentameris capensis - South Africa
- Pentameris capillaris - South Africa
- Pentameris caulescens - South Africa
- Pentameris chippindalliae - Tanzania
- Pentameris chrysurus - Tanzania
- Pentameris cirrhulosa - South Africa
- Pentameris clavata - South Africa
- Pentameris colorata - South Africa
- Pentameris curvifolia - South Africa
- Pentameris densifolia - South Africa
- Pentameris dentata - South Africa
- Pentameris dolichochaeta - Ethiopia
- Pentameris dregeana - South Africa
- Pentameris ecklonii - South Africa
- Pentameris elegans - South Africa
- Pentameris ellisii - South Africa
- Pentameris eriostoma - South Africa
- Pentameris exserta - South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris galpinii - South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris glacialis - South Africa
- Pentameris glandulosa - South Africa
- Pentameris heptamera - South Africa
- Pentameris hirtiglumis - South Africa
- Pentameris holciformis - South Africa
- Pentameris horrida - South Africa
- Pentameris humbertii - Madagascar
- Pentameris insularis - Amsterdam I + St. Paul I (both in Indian Ocean)
- Pentameris lima - South Africa
- Pentameris longiglumis - South Africa
- Pentameris longipes - South Africa
- Pentameris macrocalycina - South Africa
- Pentameris malouinensis - South Africa
- Pentameris microphylla - South Africa
- Pentameris minor - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Pentameris montana - South Africa
- Pentameris natalensis - South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland
- Pentameris oreodoxa - South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris oreophila - South Africa
- Pentameris pallescens - South Africa
- Pentameris pallida - South Africa
- Pentameris patula - South Africa
- Pentameris pholiuroides - South Africa
- Pentameris pictigluma - Yemen, Sudan, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Pentameris praecox - Lesotho
- Pentameris pseudopallescens - South Africa
- Pentameris pungens - South Africa
- Pentameris pusilla - South Africa
- Pentameris pyrophila - South Africa
- Pentameris reflexa - South Africa
- Pentameris rigidissima - South Africa
- Pentameris rosea - South Africa
- Pentameris rupestris - South Africa
- Pentameris scabra - South Africa
- Pentameris scandens - South Africa
- Pentameris setifolia - South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris swartbergensis - South Africa
- Pentameris thuarii - South Africa
- Pentameris tomentella - South Africa
- Pentameris tortuosa - South Africa
- Pentameris trifida - South Africa
- Pentameris triseta - South Africa
- Pentameris trisetoides - Ethiopia
- Pentameris tysonii - South Africa
- Pentameris uniflora - South Africa
- Pentameris velutina - South Africa
- Pentameris veneta - South Africa
- Pentameris viscidula - South Africa
- formerly included[1]
see Chaetobromus Danthonia Merxmuellera Pseudopentameris Tenaxia
- Pentameris americana - Danthonia californica
- Pentameris californica - Danthonia californica
- Pentameris compressa - Danthonia compressa
- Pentameris epilis - Danthonia sericea
- Pentameris grandiflora - Merxmuellera grandiflora
- Pentameris intermedia - Danthonia intermedia
- Pentameris involucrata - Chaetobromus involucratus
- Pentameris macrantha - Pseudopentameris macrantha
- Pentameris obtusifolia - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia
- Pentameris provincialis - Danthonia alpina
- Pentameris sericea - Danthonia sericea
- Pentameris spicata - Danthonia spicata
- Pentameris squarrosa - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia
- Pentameris stricta - Tenaxia stricta
- Pentameris thermalis - Danthonia spicata
- Pentameris unispicata - Danthonia unispicata
References
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Tropicos, Pentameris P. Beauv.
- Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 92-93 in Latin
- Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XVIII (18), figure VIII (8) line drawings of Pentameris thuarii
- Linder, Hans Peter, et al. 2010. A generic classification of the Danthionioideae (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(3): 306-364
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