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| Lasiacis | |
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| Lasiacis ligulata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Panicodae |
| Tribe: | Paniceae |
| Subtribe: | Boivinellinae |
| Genus: | Lasiacis (Griseb.) Hitchc. |
| Type species | |
| Panicum divaricatum | |
| Synonyms[3][4] | |
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Lasiacis (smallcane)[5] is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, found in the Americas from Mexico and Florida south to Argentina.[1][6][7]
Species
[edit]15 species are accepted.[8]
- Lasiacis anomala Hitchc. - Trinidad, Venezuela, Guayana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia
- Lasiacis divaricata (L.) Hitchc. - widespread from Mexico and Florida south to Argentina
- Lasiacis grisebachii (Nash) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico
- Lasiacis ligulata Hitchc. & Chase - South America, West Indies
- Lasiacis linearis Swallen - Central America, Chiapas
- Lasiacis maculata (Aubl.) Urb. - widespread from Mexico and Cuba south to Argentina
- Lasiacis nigra Davidse - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
- Lasiacis oaxacensis (Steud.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, Jamaica, Hispaniola
- Lasiacis procerrima (Hack.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
- Lasiacis rhizophora (E.Fourn.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, Greater Antilles
- Lasiacis rugelii (Griseb.) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, Hispaniola, Cuba
- Lasiacis ruscifolia (Kunth) Hitchc. ex Chase - Florida,[9] Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, West Indies
- Lasiacis scabrior Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
- Lasiacis sloanei (Griseb.) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, West Indies
- Lasiacis standleyi Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
formerly included
[edit]- Lasiacis excavata - Acroceras excavatum
References
[edit]- 1 2 Hitchcock, Albert Spear 1910. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 15: 16
- ↑ International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) see §7.3, mandating that the type of the basionym is the type of the derivative taxon
- ↑ Tropicos, Lasiacis (Griseb.) Hitchc.
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ NRCS. "Lasiacis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ↑ Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf 1864. Flora of the British West Indian Islands 551-552 as Panicum section Lasiacis
- ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ↑ "Lasiacis (Griseb.) Hitchc". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map, Lasiacis ruscifolia
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