Colpodium Explained

Colpodium is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Asia but with a few species on certain mountains in Africa.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species^{[6] [7]}

• Colpodium altaicum Trin. ex Ledeb. - Altai Mountains (Altai Krai, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Kazakhstan)
• Colpodium araraticum (Lipsky) Woronow ex Grossh. - Turkey, Armenia
• Colpodium baltistanicum Dickore - Jammu-Kashmir
• Colpodium chionogeiton (Pilg.) Tzvelev - Kenya, Tanzania
• Colpodium colchicum (Albov) Woronow ex Grossh. - Circassia, Turkey
• Colpodium drakensbergense Hedberg & I.Hedberg - KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho
• Colpodium fibrosum Trautv. - northeastern Turkey
• Colpodium gillettii Bor - Iraq
• Colpodium hedbergii (Melderis) Tzvelev - Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
• Colpodium himalaicum (Hook.f.) Bor - Jammu-Kashmir
• Colpodium humile (M.Bieb.) Griseb. - Xinjiang, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
• Colpodium lakium Woronow - Dagestan
• Colpodium lanatiflorum (Roshev.) Tzvelev - Siberia
• Colpodium nutans (Stapf) Bor - Uttarakhand, Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh
• Colpodium oreades (Peter) E.B.Alexeev - Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
• Colpodium parviflorum Boiss. & Buhse - Iran, Turkey, Caucasus
• Colpodium ponticum (Balansa) Woronow - Turkey
• Colpodium tibeticum Bor - Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal
• Colpodium variegatum (Boiss.) Boiss. ex Griseb. - Iran, Turkey
• Colpodium versicolor (Steven) Schmalh. - Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Caucasus
• Colpodium violaceum (Boiss.) Griseb. - Iran, Iraq
• Colpodium wallichii (Hook.f.) Bor - Nepal, Sikkim

formerly included see Arctagrostis Arctophila Catabrosa Dupontia Festuca Hyalopoa Muhlenbergia Periballia Phippsia Poa Puccinellia × Pucciphippsia Sporobolus

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15353851#page/135/mode/1up Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 119
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15353851#page/240/mode/1up Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae plate 7
3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=242421507 Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal, Colpodium wallichii (Hook. f.) Bor
4. Bor, Norman Loftus. 1960. Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae). Pergamon Press, Oxford UK.
5. Dickoré, W. B. 1995. Systematische revision und chorologische analyse der Monocotyledoneae des Karakorum (Zentralasian, West-Tibet). Flora Karakorumensis: I. Angiospermae, Monocotyledoneae. Stapfia 39:1–290
6. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Colpodium The Plant List search for Colpodium
7. Mill, R. R. 1985. Eremopoa, Nephelochloa, Catabrosella, Colpodium, Hyalopoa, Catabrosa, Paracolpodium, In: Davis, P. H. (ed.). 9: 486–501. In P. H. Davis, Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh