Jouvea is a Latin American genus of coastal plants in the grass family. It grows on mud flats and coastal sand dunes from northern Mexico to Ecuador.Grassbase - The World Online Grass FloraScribner, Frank Lamson. 1896. Grass notes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 23: 143-147 in EnglishFournier, Eugène Pierre Nicolas. 1876. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Belgique 15(3): 475–476 description in Latin, commentary in French
Jouvea's closest relative in the subfamily Chloridoideae is likely Monanthochloe; both share the characteristic of distichously arranged leaves, and both are dioecious.
Jouvea was named for the French botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810–1883)
SpeciesThe Plant List search for JouveaLevin, G. A. & R. Moran. 1989. The vascular flora of Isla Socorro, Mexico. Memoir San Diego Society of Natural History 16: 1–66McVaugh, R. 1983. Gramineae. 14: 1–436. In R. McVaugh (ed.) Flora Novo-Galiciana. The University of Michigan, Ann ArborBreedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246Morales Quirós, J. F. 2003. Poaceae. 93(3): 598–821. In B. E. Hammel, M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera Mora & N. Zamora Villalobos (eds.) Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.Berendsohn, W. G. & A. E. A. González. 1991. Listado básico de la Flora Salvadorensis. Monocotelydoneae: Iridaceae, Commelinaceae, Gramineae, Cyperaceae. Cuscatlania 1(6): 1–29.Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181 Jouvea pilosa (J.Presl) Scribn. – Central America (Guatemala to Nicaragua), Mexico (Tamaulipas, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán) Jouvea straminea E.Fourn. – Ecuador, Colombia, Central America (Guatemala to Panama), Mexico (Socorro Island, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit)
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External links Photos of Jouvea pilosa, from San Diego State University.