Arundo
Genus of grasses
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::summary Genus of grasses ::
|fossil_range = Late Cretaceous–Recent |image = Arundo.donax1web.jpg |image_caption = Giant cane (Arundo donax) |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Arundo |authority = Tourn. ex L. |type_species_authority = L. |type_species = Arundo donax |synonyms_ref = |synonyms =
- Donax P.Beauv. 1812, illegitimate homonym not Lour. 1790
- Eudonax Fr.
- Scolochloa Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
- Amphidonax Nees
- Donacium Fr.
Arundo is a genus of stout, perennial plants in the grass family.
Description
Arundo is native to southern Europe, North Africa, and much of temperate Asia as far east as Japan. They grow to 3–6 m tall, occasionally to 10 m, with leaves 30–60 cm long and 3–6 cm broad.
; Species
- Arundo collina Ten.
- Arundo donax L. – Giant cane, Spanish cane (south and east Mediterranean, to India; naturalised in many additional areas and often invasive)
- Arundo formosana Hack. – Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Philippines
- Arundo mediterranea Danin – Mediterranean
- Arundo micrantha Lam. – Mediterranean
- Arundo plinii Turra – Pliny's reed – Greece, Italy, Albania, Croatia
There are over 200 species once considered part of Arundo but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Achnatherum, Agrostis, Ammophila, Ampelodesmos, Arthrostylidium, Arundinaria, Austroderia, Bambusa, Calamagrostis, Calammophila, Calamovilfa, Chionochloa, Chusquea, Cinna, Cortaderia, Dendrocalamus, Deschampsia, Dupontia, Gastridium, Gigantochloa, Graphephorum, Gynerium, Imperata, Indocalamus, Melica, Miscanthus, Molinia, Muhlenbergia, Neyraudia, Phalaris, Phragmites, Poa, Psammochloa, Rytidosperma, Saccharum, Schizostachyum, Scolochloa, Stipa, Thysanolaena, Trisetaria.
References
References
- (2002). "Позднемеловые флоры Южной Монголии и их стратиграфическое положение". Collection of Memories, Vsevolod Andreevich Vakhrameev.
- (1914). "The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia.". US Geological Survey Professional Paper.
- lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 121 (1929)
- [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451090 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
- Watson L, Dallwitz MJ.. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World.
- [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Arundo The Plant List search for Arundo]
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