Ortachne
Genus of grasses
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Ortachne is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.[5][6][7]
- formerly included[2]
| Ortachne | |
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| Ortachne from Plate CXXXI of Hooker's Flora Anatarctica. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Stipodae |
| Tribe: | Stipeae |
| Genus: | Ortachne Nees ex Steud. |
| Type species | |
| Ortachne retorta (syn of O. rariflora) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Parodiella Reeder & C.Reeder 1968, illegitimate homonym not Speg. 1880 (a fungus in Pyrenomycetes)[3][4] | |
see Aristida
- Ortachne floridana - Aristida floridana
- Ortachne pilosa - Aristida jorullensis
- Ortachne scabra - Aristida ternipes
- Ortachne tenuis - Aristida ternipes
- Ortachne erectifolia (Swallen) Clayton - Lorenzochloa erectifolia