''Zuloagaea'' ('panic grass') is a monotypic genus of the central American plants in the

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. It only contains one known species, ''Zuloagaea bulbosa'' It was formerly known as ''Panicum bulbosum'' It is native to United States of America (within the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Utah) and also central America (within the countries of

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, Ecuador,

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

, Mexico and Nicaragua). The genus was

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by Emilie C. Bess in Systematic Botany vol.31 on page 666 in 2006. The genus name of ''Zuloagaea'' is in honour of Fernando Omar Zuloaga (b.1951), an Argentinian botanist and Professor of Phytogeography from the National University of La Plata. He was between 1991 - 1998 curator and director of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. The genus and species is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the

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, since 29 December 2006.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q21231875, from2=Q21297581 Panicoideae Grasses of the United States Grasses of Mexico Flora of Arizona Flora of Utah Flora of the South-Central United States Flora of Mexico Flora of Central America Flora of Colombia Monotypic Poaceae genera