''Schenckochloa'' is a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
. It only contains one known species, ''Schenckochloa barbata''
Its native range is north-eastern
Brazil.
The genus name of ''Schenckochloa'' is in honour of
Heinrich Schenck (1860–1927), a German botanist who was a native of
Siegen. The Latin
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of ''barbata'' is derived from ''barbatus'' meaning bearded.
Both genus and species were first described and published in Candollea Vol.46 on page 243 in 1991.
The genus is recognized by the
United States Department of Agriculture and the
Agricultural Research Service
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, but they do not list any known species and they note that it could be a possible synonym of ''
Gouinia'' .
References
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Chloridoideae
Monotypic Poaceae genera
Plants described in 1991
Flora of Northeast Brazil