Acostia
Genus of grasses
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Acostia is a genus of South American plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5]
| Acostia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Paspaleae |
| Subtribe: | Paspalinae |
| Genus: | Acostia Swallen |
| Species: | A. gracilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acostia gracilis | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The only known species is Acostia gracilis, found only in Ecuador.[1][6] It is listed as an endangered species.[7]
The genus name of Acostia is in honour of Misael Acosta Solís (1910–1994), an Ecuadorian naturalist.[8] The Latin specific epithet of gracilis means "slender".[9] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.12 on page 109 in 1968.[6] The genus was described of a single specimen, and between its first description in 1968 and 1989 no further collections have been made.[5] In 1989, Webster, Kirkbride and Reyna treated it as a member of the genus Panicum under the new combination Panicum acostia, since Panicum gracile is unavailable, and in 2022 it has been suggested by Gallaher and co-authors that it should be considered either to form a separate genus or as a member of the genus Axonopus.[10]
