Ctenium canescens Benth.

Native to:

Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo, Zaïre

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
• Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
• Longhi-Wagner, H.M., Cope, T.A. (2014). The genus Ctenium (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) in Africa. Kew Bulletin 69(9541): 1-30.
• Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
• Oulo, M., Hu, G.W. & Sosef, M.S.M. (2023). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi), n.s., Graminae Tribu XXX. Cynodonteae: 1-139. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Meise.
• Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.

Kew Bulletin

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• Berhaut 1954: 10
• Berhaut, R. P. (1954). Nouveautés sur les Graminées du Sénégal. Mém. Soc. Bot. France 34: 9 – 12.
• Chevalier, A. (1934). Etude sur les Prairies de l’Ouest africain. Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 14 (150): 128.
• Chiovenda, E. (1897). Contribuzioni alla conoscenza della flora dell’Africa orientale. XVI. Graminaceae somalenses a Dr. D. Riva in expeditione ruspoliana lectae. Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 7: 58 – 78.
• Chiovenda, E. (1919). Plantae e Catanga a Cl. Dr. H. Bovone lectae. N. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 26: 58 – 85.
• Clayton, W. D. (1960). Studies in the Gramineae: I. Kew Bull. 14: 239 – 240.
• Clayton, W. D. (1963). The African species of Ctenium. Studies in the Gramineae IV. Kew Bull. 16: 471 – 475.
• Clayton, W. D. (1972). Gramineae. In: F. N. Hepper (ed), Flora of West Tropical Africa 3 (2): 349 – 512. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London.
• Clayton, W. D., Govaerts, R. Harman, K. T., Williamson, H. & Vorontsova, M. (2014). World Checklist of Poaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ accessed 12 Feb 2014.
• Clayton, W. D., Phillips, S. M. & Renvoize, S. A. (1974). Gramineae. In: R. M. Polhill (ed), Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177 – 449. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London.
• Cope, T. A. (1999). Cynodonteae. In: G. V. Pope & E. S. Martins (eds), Flora Zambesiaca 10 (2): 204. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• GPWG (Grass Phylogeny Working Group) (2012). New Grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins. New Phytol. 193: 304 – 312.
• Hackel, E. (1887). Contribuições para o estudo da Flora da Costa occidental d’Africa, Gramineae. Bol. Soc. Brot. 5: 228 – 230.
• Hooker 1849: 566
• Kunth, K. S. (1830). Révision des Graminées 2, t. 59: 295 Librarie-Gide, Paris.
• Kuntze, C. E. O. (1891). Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 375 – 1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig.
• Lebrun, J.-P. (1976). Premier supplement au “Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Tchad Méridional”. Adansonia ser. 2, 15 (3): 381 – 390.
• Longhi-Wagner, H. M. & Cope, T. A. (2003). Ctenium longiglume (Poaceae), a new species from Africa. Kew Bull. 58: 229 – 231.
• Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D. (1841). Florae Africae australioris illustrationes monographicae 1. Sumtibus Prausnitzianis, Glogaviae.
• Panzer, G. W. F. (1813, publ. 1814). Ideen zu einer künftigen Revision der Gattungen der Gräser, 1 – 62. Denkschr. K. Bayer. Akad. Wissensch. 4: 253 – 312.
• Pilger, R. K. F. (1924). Die afrikanishen Ctenium-Arten des Berliner Herbars. Notizbl. Bot. Garten Berlin 9: 114 – 120.
• Röpert, D. (ed.) (2000+ [continuously updated]). Digital specimen images at the Herbarium Berolinense”. http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/accessed 13 Feb 2014.
• Schumacher, C. T. (1827). Berkrivelse af Guineiske planter: som ere fundne af Danske botanikere, isaer af etatsraad Thonning. F. Popp, Kjöbenhavn.
• Smith, J. G. (1896). A synopsis of the American species of Ctenium. Bot. Gaz. 21(6): 361 – 365.
• Soreng, R. J., Davidse, G., Peterson, P. M., Zuloaga, F. O., Judziewicz, E. J., Filgueiras, T. S., Morrone, O. & Romaschenko, K. (2013). A world-wide phylogenetic classification of Poaceae (Gramineae). Catalogue of new World Grasses. . Accessed 5 September 2013.
• Steudel, E. G. (1854). Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart.
• Thiers, B. [continuously updated]. Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium. http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/. Accessed 4 July 2013.
• Trinius, C. B. (1829). Species Graminum. v. 3. Imp. Academic Imperialis Scientiarum, St. Petersburg.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• A. Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 14: 128.
• Pilger in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 9: 118 (1924)
• in Fl. Nigrit. 566 (1849)

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
• Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
• Oulo, M., Hu, G.W. & Sosef, M.S.M. (2023). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi), n.s., Graminae Tribu XXX. Cynodonteae: 1-139. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Meise.
• Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.