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Issue: Vol. 464 No. 3: 19 October 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.464.3.7
Page range: 249–251
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

Notes on the lectotype of Tetrapogon roxburghianus (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae)

Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, A.J.C.B. Indian Botanic Garden, Botanic Garden P.O., Howrah – 711103, West Bengal, India.
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, A.J.C.B. Indian Botanic Garden, Botanic Garden P.O., Howrah – 711103, West Bengal, India.
Poaceae Chloridoideae Cynodonteae Monocots

Abstract

Tetrapogon Desfontaines (1799: 388) comprises 10 species distributed in warmer parts of Africa, Middle East, India, Pakistan, Mexico and Cuba (Mabberley 2018, Soreng et al. 2017). The genus is represented in India by three species namely Tetrapogon roxburghianus (Schultes) P.M.Peterson in Peterson et al. (2015: 460), T. tenellus (J. Koenig ex Roxburgh 1814: 82) Chiovenda (1908: 352) and T. villosus Desfontaines (1799: 389).