New Species of Festuca, Sporobolus, and Eriochloa (Poaceae) from Mesoamerica and South America

As a result of work on the Poaceae for Flora Mesoamericana, the following four new species are described, illustrated, and compared with their closest putative relatives: Festuca talamancensis from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica, F. herrerae from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica...

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Published in:Novon (Saint Louis, Mo.) Mo.), 1992-12, Vol.2 (4), p.322-328
Main Authors: Davidse, Gerrit, Pohl, Richard W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Embryos
Florets
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Glumes
Inflorescences
Ligules
Massifs
New species
Panicles
Pedicels
Plant cytology, morphology, systematics, chorology and evolution
Spermatophyta
Spikelets
Systematics (diagnosis, chromosome numbers)
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Summary:As a result of work on the Poaceae for Flora Mesoamericana, the following four new species are described, illustrated, and compared with their closest putative relatives: Festuca talamancensis from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica, F. herrerae from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica and Panama, Sporobolus distichivaginatus from the Petén, Guatemala, and Eriochloa stevensii from Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ecuador.
ISSN:1055-3177
1945-6174
DOI:10.2307/3391487