Parodiophyllochloa Explained

Parodiophyllochloa is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.^{[1] [2]}

The genus name of Parodiophyllochloa is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of botany in Buenos Aires and La Plata with a focus on South American grasses.^[3]

Species^[4]

• Parodiophyllochloa cordovensis - from northern Mexico to northern Argentina
• Parodiophyllochloa missiona - Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina
• Parodiophyllochloa ovulifera - tropical South America
• Parodiophyllochloa pantricha - tropical South + Central America
• Parodiophyllochloa penicillata - Brazil
• Parodiophyllochloa rhizogona - Brazil, northeastern Argentina

Notes and References

1. Morrone, O., S. S. Denham, S. S. Aliscioni & F. O. Zuloaga. 2008. Parodiophyllochloa, a new genus segregated from Panicum (Paniceae, Poaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Botany 33(1): 66–76.
2. Web site: Parodiophyllochloa Zuloaga & Morrone Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 8 November 2021 . en.
3. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.
4. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451782 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families