Alexfloydia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Supertribe: | Panicodae |
Tribe: | Paniceae |
Subtribe: | Cenchrinae |
Genus: |
Alexfloydia B.K.Simon |
Species: | A. repens
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Binomial name | |
Alexfloydia repens |
Alexfloydia is a genus of perennial stoloniferous grasses in the panic grass subfamily of the Poaceae grass family. [1] [2]
This genus is endemic to coastal eastern New South Wales in Australia.
There is one known species, Alexfloydia repens. [3] This genus was named in honour of the species discoverer, Australian botanist Alexander Floyd (1926-2022). [4] [5]
Alexfloydia repens is a spreading, mat-forming grass found on the margins of brackish and tidal waterways in areas flooded by unusually high tides (called " king tides"). [6] The species forms a groundcover associated with the tree species Casuarina glauca and the Endangered Ecological Community Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest. Currently this grass is known only from a few locations in the Coffs Harbour region.
This species is listed as Endangered on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Act. [7]
Alexfloydia repens is the sole larval food plant for the endangered Black grass-dart butterfly ( Ocybadistes knightorum) (Lambkin & Donaldson, 1994). [8]
Alexfloydia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Supertribe: | Panicodae |
Tribe: | Paniceae |
Subtribe: | Cenchrinae |
Genus: |
Alexfloydia B.K.Simon |
Species: | A. repens
|
Binomial name | |
Alexfloydia repens |
Alexfloydia is a genus of perennial stoloniferous grasses in the panic grass subfamily of the Poaceae grass family. [1] [2]
This genus is endemic to coastal eastern New South Wales in Australia.
There is one known species, Alexfloydia repens. [3] This genus was named in honour of the species discoverer, Australian botanist Alexander Floyd (1926-2022). [4] [5]
Alexfloydia repens is a spreading, mat-forming grass found on the margins of brackish and tidal waterways in areas flooded by unusually high tides (called " king tides"). [6] The species forms a groundcover associated with the tree species Casuarina glauca and the Endangered Ecological Community Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest. Currently this grass is known only from a few locations in the Coffs Harbour region.
This species is listed as Endangered on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Act. [7]
Alexfloydia repens is the sole larval food plant for the endangered Black grass-dart butterfly ( Ocybadistes knightorum) (Lambkin & Donaldson, 1994). [8]