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Genus of grasses
Chondrosum
Scientific classification
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Chondrosum
Type species
Chondrosum procumbens
Synonyms
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[2]
Erucaria Cerv. 1870. illegitimate homonym not Gaertn. 1791 (
Brassicaceae )
Actinochloa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
Bouteloua sect. Chondrosum (Desv.) Benth. & Hook. f.
Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) A. Gray
Bouteloua subgen. Chondrosum (Desv.) Gould
Chondrosum is a
genus of
North American and
South American plants in the
grass family .
[3]
[4]
Chondrosum is closely related to
Bouteloua and considered part of that genus in some publications.
[2]
Species
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Chondrosum barbatum (Lag.) Clayton - United States (
CA
AZ
NM
TX
OK
KS
CO
UT
NV
MT ), Mexico,
Argentina
Chondrosum brevisetum (Vasey) Clayton - United States (
NM
TX ), widespread in Mexico
Chondrosum chasei (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (
Coahuila ,
Nuevo León ,
San Luis Potosí )
Chondrosum elatum (Reeder & C.Reeder) Clayton - Mexico (
Colima ,
Chiapas ,
Oaxaca ,
Guerrero ,
Jalisco ,
Nayarit ),
Guatemala
Chondrosum eriopodum Torr. - United States (
CA
AZ
NM
TX OK
KS
CO
UT
NV ), Mexico (
Sonora ,
Chihuahua ,
Coahuila ,
Durango ,
Zacatecas )
Chondrosum eriostachyum (Swallen) Clayton - Mexico (
Coahuila )
Chondrosum gracile Kunth - widespread in Canada, United States, Mexico; naturalized in China,
Bangladesh ,
Saudi Arabia
Chondrosum hirsutum (Lag.) Sweet - widespread in United States + Mexico +
Guatemala
Chondrosum karwinskyi E.Fourn. ex Hemsl. Mexico (
San Luis Potosí ,
Coahuila ,
Durango ,
Zacatecas )
Chondrosum kayi (Warnock) Clayton -
Big Bend region of
Texas
Chondrosum parryi E.Fourn. - United States (
AZ
NM
TX ), Mexico (
Chihuahua ,
Sonora ,
Sinaloa )
Chondrosum pectinatum (Feath.) Clayton USA (
TX
OK )
Chondrosum scorpioides (Lag.) Kunth - northern + central Mexico
Chondrosum simplex (Lag.) Kunth - United States (
AZ
NM
TX
NV
UT
CO
KS
NE
WY ),
Mesoamerica ,
South America
Chondrosum trifidum (Thurb.) Clayton - United States (
CA
AZ
NM
TX
NV
UT ), northern Mexico
formerly included
[1]
species now considered better suited to other genera:
Bouteloua
Chloris
See also
References