Drakkaria

Drakkaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paspaleae
Subtribe: Paspalinae
Genus:
C.Silva & Zuloaga
Species:
D. venezuelae
Binomial name
Drakkaria venezuelae
(Hack.) C.Silva & Zuloaga
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachiaria venezuelae (Hack.) Henrard
  • Panicum berteronianum Mez, nom. illeg.
  • Panicum ineptum Hitchc. & Chase
  • Panicum venezuelae Hack. (1901) (basionym)

Drakkaria is a genus of grasses. It includes a single species, Drakkaria venezuelae, a perennial native to the tropical Americas. It has a disjunct distribution in Guatemala, Honduras, northwestern Costa Rica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Venezuela, and northeastern Brazil,[1] where it grows in tropical dry forests.[2]

The species was first described as Panicum venezuelae by Eduard Hackel in 1901. In 2024 Christian Silva and Fernando Omar Zuloaga placed the species in the newly-described genus Drakkaria as Drakkaria venezuelae.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Drakkaria venezuelae (Hack.) C.Silva & Zuloaga". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  2. ^ Christian Silva, Júlia da Costa Hillmann, Juan Manuel Acosta, Reyjane Patrícia Oliveira, Fernando Omar Zuloaga, One more step into the resolution of Panicum (Poaceae) polyphyly: Drakkaria, a new segregate genus from neotropical Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 207, Issue 3, March 2025, Pages 208–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae044
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