Description
Book SynopsisThis work will be volume 124 in the Flora Neotropica Monograph book Series, Lawrence M. Kelly (Editor-in-Chief). Flora Neotropica volumes provide taxonomic treatments of plant groups or families growing in the Americas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. This monograph on Panicum (Poaceae), known as panicgrass, was written by the world-leading authority on this plant group. A total of one genus and 63 species are described. It also includes information on conservation, phylogenetic relationships, taxonomic history, ecology, cytology, and anatomy, among other topics. This is the first comprehensive volume on this topic since the 1920s and is lavishly illustrated with line drawings, black and white photographs, and distribution maps.
Table of ContentsAbstract
Resumen
Introduction
Material and Methods
History of the genus
Morphology
Habit, sheaths, ligules and blades
Inflorescences Spikelets
Texture and ornamentation of the upper anthecium
Foliar anatomy
Chromosome numbers
Phylogeny and evolution
Geographic distribution
Taxonomic treatment
Key of sections and ungrouped species
Species
Excluded species
Acknowledgments
List of taxa
Literature cited
List of exsicatta
Index of local names
Index of scientific names
