Louisiella Explained

Louisiella is a genus of African, Neotropical and tropical plants in the grass family.^{[1] [2] [3]} Earlier the genus was known to comprise only two species i.e. L. fluitans and L. elephantipes. Mr. Shahid Nawaz, an agrostologist at the Blatter Herbarium (BLAT), transferred a species Panicum paludosum Roxb. into Louisiella based on critical study of the morphological features. Now, there are three globally accepted species in the genus.

Species^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

• Louisiella fluitans C.E.Hubb. & J.Léonard - Cameroon, Zaïre, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Sudan
• Louisiella elephantipes (Nees ex Trin.) Zuloaga - Latin America (from southern Mexico and the Greater Antilles to Uruguay).
• Louisiella paludosa (Roxb.) Landge - India, Southeast Asia up to Australia.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Hubbard, Charles Edward & Léonard, Jean Joseph Gustave. 1952. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 22: 316-317
2. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00360.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
3. Landge . Shahid Nawaz . 22 July 2021 . A new combination in the genus Louisiella . Phytotaxa . 512 . 2 . 107–111 . 10.11646/phytotaxa.512.2.3 . Magnolia Press.
4. http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Louisiella&commonname= Tropicos, search for Louisiella
5. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=423113 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
6. Scataglini . M. A. . Lizarazu . M. A. . Zuloaga . F. O. . 2014 . A peculiar amphitropical genus of Paniceae (Poaceae, Panicoideae) . Systematic Botany . 39 . 4. 1108–1119. 10.1600/036364414X683886 . 84381406 . 11336/18998 . free .
7. Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557