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Issue: Vol. 71 No. 1 (2012)
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2012-11-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.71.1.1
Page range: 1–4
Abstract views: 20
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New record for Eriochrysis (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and a key to the species of Eriochrysis in Brazil

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970, Brazil
Eriochrysis Poaceae Andropogoneae Brazil Monocots

Abstract

The genus Eriochrysis Beauvois (1812: 8) (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) includes ca. seven species from America, Africa, and India (Clayton & Renvoize 1986). It is characterized mainly by inflorescences with golden-brown to light-brown trichomes, and heterogamous spikelets: sessile spikelets with a bisexual flower and pedicelled spikelets with a pistillate flower. Six species of the genus occur in Brazil (Filgueiras & Welker 2012), of which three were previously reported for the State of Rio Grande do Sul: E. cayennensis Beauvois (1812: 8), E. holcoides (Nees 1829: 324) Kuhlmann (1922: 89) and E. villosa Swallen (1966: 90) (Welker & Longhi-Wagner 2012).