Leptothrium is a genus of African, Asian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
SpeciesThe Plant List search for Leptothrium Leptothrium rigidum Kunth - Jamaica, Hispaniola, Colombia, Venezuela Leptothrium senegalense (Kunth) Clayton - Africa from Cape Verde to Tanzania and Egypt; Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan
homonym The name Leptothrium in its current sense was coined by Karl Sigismund Kunth in 1829.Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1829. Révision des Graminées 1: 156 in Latin The same author had used the same name earlier, in 1816, to refer to a species of orchid.Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 340 This appears to have been in error, with the name merely listed as a synonym, but the name was nevertheless published so it must be considered a homonym. One species name was coined in 1816 using this homonym, i.e. Leptothrium lineare (Jacq.) Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth 1816, syn of Isochilus linearis (Jacq.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton 1813Tropicos, Leptothrium Kunth 1816The International Plant Names Index
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