Tridens (plant) explained

Tridens is a genus of perennial grasses in the family Poaceae native to the Americas.^{[1] [2]}

Species^{[3] [4] [5]}

• Tridens albescens (Vasey) Wooton & Standl. - southwest + south-central USA (AZ NM TX LA AR OK KS), Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León)
• Tridens ambiguus (Elliott) Schult.  - pine barren fluffgrass - southeastern USA (TX LA MS AL GA FL SC NC)
• Tridens brasiliensis (Nees ex Steud.) Parodi - Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
• Tridens buckleyanus (Vasey ex L.H.Dewey) Nash - Texas
• Tridens carolinianus (Steud.) Henrard - southeastern USA (LA MS AL GA FL SC NC)
• Tridens congestus (L.H.Dewey) Nash  - pink fluffgrass USA (AZ TX)
• Tridens eragrostoides (Vasey & Scribn.) Nash  - lovegrass tridens - southern USA (TX AZ NM AL FL), Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela
• Tridens flaccidus (Döll) Parodi - Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia
• Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.  - purpletop - Ontario, eastern + central USA, Nuevo León
• Tridens hackelii (Arechav.) Parodi - Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Tridens muticus (Torr.) Nash  - slim tridens - southwestern + south-central USA (CA NV AZ UT CO NM TX OK KS MO AR LA), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas)
• Tridens nicorae Anton - northern Argentina
• Tridens × oklahomensis (Feath.) Feath. - Oklahoma (hybrid T. flavus × T. strictus)
• Tridens riograndensis Acedo & Llamas^[6] - Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil
• Tridens strictus (Nutt.) Nash  - longspike tridens - southeastern + south-central USA (from TX to FL to IL + PA)
• Tridens texanus (S. Watson) Nash - USA (TX NM), Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí)

Formerly included

External links

• Jepson Manual: Tridens
• USDA Plants Profile

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/719725#page/607/mode/1up Roemer, Johann Jakob & Schultes, Josef August. 1817. Systema Vegetabilium 2: 34, 599-600
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40018135 Tropicos, Tridens Roem. & Schult.
3. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Tridens The Plant List search for Tridens
4. Web site: GRIN Species Records of Tridens . Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture . 2011-03-01.
5. http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Tridens Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
6. Acedo, C. and F. Llamas. (2003). A new species of Tridens (Poaceae) from Brazil. Systematic Botany 28:2 313-16.