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Chasmopodium

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Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Chasmopodium, and connects out to Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad.

It is catalogued under topics including Andropogoneae and Poaceae genera.

Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyPoaceae
Observations recorded1,230

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
3
With media
6
Family
Poaceae
Collections
MO, MNHN
Recorded in
Benin

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Poaceae
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genus
taxon name
Chasmopodium
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Category:Chasmopodium
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Encyclopedic overview

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Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family. Species Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf – Sierra Leone, Togo Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf – Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Sudan, Angola Formerly included Chasmopodium purpurascens - synonym of Rottboellia purpurascens

==See also== List of Poaceae genera

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chasmopodium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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