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Ctenium Elegans
''Ctenium elegans'' is an annual grass species in the genus ''Ctenium ''Ctenium'' is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family. ; Species ; formerly included see ''Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon'' * ''Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus'' * ''Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon ...'' from African savanna areas. It is distributed from Senegal to the Sudan and grows on sandy soils of the South Sahelian and North Sudanian zones. Uses The stems are used as materials for roof thatching and for making households products such as baskets, mats and brooms. Less known for use as grazing fodder. References External links Herbarium Specimenat the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (through jstor) Chloridoideae Plants described in 1829 {{Chloridoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ctenium
''Ctenium'' is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family. ; Species ; formerly included see ''Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon'' * ''Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus'' * ''Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon tenellus'' * ''Ctenium nukaviense - Dactyloctenium aegyptium ''Dactyloctenium aegyptium'', or Egyptian crowfoot grass is a member of the family Poaceae native in Africa. The plant mostly grows in heavy soils at damp sites. Description This grass creeps and has a straight shoot which are usually about 3 ...'' * ''Ctenium rupestre - Enteropogon rupestris'' * ''Ctenium sechellense - Enteropogon sechellensis'' References Chloridoideae Poaceae genera {{Chloridoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloridoideae
Chloridoideae is one of the largest subfamilies of grasses, with roughly 150 genera and 1,600 species, mainly found in arid tropical or subtropical grasslands. Within the PACMAD clade, their sister group are the Danthonioideae. The subfamily includes widespread weeds such as Bermuda grass (''Cynodon dactylon'') or goosegrass (''Eleusine indica''), but also millet species grown in some tropical regions, namely finger millet (''Eleusine coracana'') and teff (''Eragrostis tef''). With the exception of some species in ''Ellisochloa'' and Eleusine indica, most of the subfamily's species use the C4 photosynthetic pathway. The first evolutionary transition from C3 to C4 photosynthesis in the grasses probably occurred in this subfamily, around 32 to 25 million years ago in the Oligocene. Phylogeny Relationships of tribes in the Chloridoideae according to a 2017 phylogenetic classification, also showing the Danthonioideae as sister group: The following genera have not been assigned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |