Sohnsia

Sohnsia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Genus: Sohnsia
Airy Shaw
Species:
S. filifolia
Binomial name
Sohnsia filifolia
Synonyms
  • Calamochloa E.Fourn. 1877, non Calamochloe Rchb. 1828
  • Eufournia Reeder
  • Calamochloa filifolia E.Fourn.
  • Eufournia filifolia (E.Fourn.) Reeder

Sohnsia is a genus of plants in the grass family. The only known species is Sohnsia filifolia, native to the States of San Luis Potosí and Querétaro in northeastern Mexico. It is dioecious, with its chromosome number being 2n = 20.

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth. 1965. Kew Bulletin 18(2): 272.
  3. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. ↑ Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México D.F.
  5. ↑ Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una Sinopsis Florística 10: 7–236
  6. ↑ Singh, D. N. (1972). "Sex and Supernumerary Chromosomes in the Dioecious Grass Sohnsia filifolia". Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology. 14: 175–180. doi:10.1139/g72-020.