Snowdenia

Short description: Genus of plants

Snowdenia

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:  | Snowdenia
C.E.Hubb.
Type species
Snowdenia microcarpha

C.E.Hubb.

Synonyms[1]

Beckera Fresen.

Snowdenia is a genus of plants in the grass family, they are native to Arabia and East Africa.[2][3][4][5]

The genus was circumscribed by Charles Edward Hubbard in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1929) on page 30 in 1929.[1]

The genus name of Snowdenia is in honour of Joseph Devenport Snowden (1886–1973), who was a British gardener, botanist and mycologist. Who worked at Kew Gardens.[6]

## Species

As accepted by Kew;[1]

* Snowdenia microcarpha C.E.Hubb. \- Uganda
* Snowdenia mutica (Hochst.) Pilg. \- Ethiopia
* Snowdenia petitiana (A.Rich.) C.E.Hubb. \- Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen
* Snowdenia polystachya (Fresen.) Pilg. \- Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Saudi Arabia

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Snowdenia C.E.Hubb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:19027-1.
2. ↑ Hubbard, Charles Edward 1929. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1929(1): 30–31
3. ↑ Pilger, Robert Knud Friedrich. 1938. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 14: 103
4. ↑ Tropicos, Snowdenia C.E. Hubb.
5. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
6. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

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