Jouvea Explained

Jouvea is a Latin American genus of coastal plants in the grass family. It grows on mud flats and coastal sand dunes from northern Mexico to Ecuador.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Jouvea's closest relative in the subfamily Chloridoideae is likely Monanthochloe; both share the characteristic of distichously arranged leaves, and both are dioecious.

Jouvea was named for the French botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810–1883)^[4]

Species^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}

• Jouvea pilosa (J.Presl) Scribn. - Central America (Guatemala to Nicaragua), Mexico (Tamaulipas, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán)
• Jouvea straminea E.Fourn. - Ecuador, Colombia, Central America (Guatemala to Panamá), Mexico (Socorro Island, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit)

External links

• Photos of Jouvea pilosa, from San Diego State University.

Notes and References

1. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00321.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/711524#page/187/mode/1up Scribner, Frank Lamson. 1896. Grass notes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 23: 143-147
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3178923#page/503/mode/1up Fournier, Eugène Pierre Nicolas. 1876. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Belgique 15(3): 475–476
4. Web site: Some Plants of Baja California, Mexico . Michael G. Simpson . San Diego State University . San Diego, California . May 2, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927144624/http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/plants/field/baja/plants/Jouvea_pilosa.html . September 27, 2011 . dead .
5. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Jouvea The Plant List search for Jouvea
6. Levin, G. A. & R. Moran. 1989. The vascular flora of Isla Socorro, Mexico. Memoir San Diego Society of Natural History 16: 1–66
7. McVaugh, R. 1983. Gramineae. 14: 1–436. In R. McVaugh (ed.) Flora Novo-Galiciana. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
8. Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246
9. Morales Quirós, J. F. 2003. Poaceae. 93(3): 598–821. In B. E. Hammel, M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera Mora & N. Zamora Villalobos (eds.) Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
10. Berendsohn, W. G. & A. E. A. González. 1991. Listado básico de la Flora Salvadorensis. Monocotelydoneae: Iridaceae, Commelinaceae, Gramineae, Cyperaceae. Cuscatlania 1(6): 1–29.
11. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181