Hilaria (plant)

Genus of flowering plants

Hilaria
Hilaria rigida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Hilariinae
P.M.Peterson & Columbus
Genus: Hilaria
Kunth
Type species
Hilaria cenchroides
Kunth[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Hexarrhena C.Presl
  • Schleropelta Buckley
  • Pleuraphis Torr.

Hilaria is a genus of North American plants in the grass family.[4][5] Members of the genus are commonly known as curly mesquite. They are found in the Southwestern United States, Mexico, and Guatemala.[6]

The generic name honors French naturalist Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779–1853).[7]

Species[2][8][9][10][11]
  • Hilaria annua Reeder & C.Reeder - Colima
  • Hilaria belangeri (Steud.) Nash USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) south to Oaxaca
  • Hilaria cenchroides Kunth - from Chihuahua to Guatemala; naturalized in Arizona (Pima + Cochise Counties)
  • Hilaria ciliata (Scribn.) Sohns - from Chihuahua to Oaxaca
  • Hilaria hintonii Sohns - Guerrero, Morelos, Querétaro, México State
  • Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth. - United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
  • Hilaria mutica (Buckley) Benth. - USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas), Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Durango, Zacatecas, Sonora, Baja California Sur)
  • Hilaria rigida (Thurb.) Benth. ex Scribn. - United States (Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah), Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora, Baja California)
  • Hilaria semplei Sohns - Michoacán
  • Hilaria swallenii Cory - United States (New Mexico, Texas), Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas)

References

  1. ^ Tropicos, Hilaria Kunth
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ "Genus: Hilaria Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  4. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 116–118 in Latin
  5. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plate 37 line drawing of Hilaria cenchroides
  6. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  7. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses. Vol. II E-O. CRC Press. pp. 1045–1047. ISBN 978-0-8493-1303-5.
  8. ^ The Plant List search for Hilaria
  9. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, Hilaria
  10. ^ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps, Pleuraphis
  11. ^ Sohns, E. R. 1956. The genus Hilaria (Gramineae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(10): 311–321
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