''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
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to
Ecuador
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.
[
''Jouvea's'' closest relative in the subfamily ]Chloridoideae
Chloridoideae is one of the largest subfamily, subfamilies of Poaceae, grasses, with roughly 150 genera and 1,600 species, mainly found in arid tropical or subtropical grasslands. Within the PACMAD clade, their sister group is the Danthonioideae. ...
is likely '' Monanthochloe;'' both share the characteristic of distichously arranged leaves
A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, ...
, and both are dioecious.[
''Jouvea'' was named for the French botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810–1883)][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
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(Guatemala
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to Nicaragua
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), Mexico
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(Tamaulipas
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It is located in nor ...
, Baja California Sur, Sonora
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, Sinaloa, Jalisco
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, Nayarit, Guerrero
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, Michoacán
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, Colima, Oaxaca
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, Chiapas
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, Yucatán)
* '' Jouvea straminea'' E.Fourn. – Ecuador
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, Colombia
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, Central America
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(Guatemala
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to Panama
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), Mexico
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( Socorro Island, Chiapas
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, Oaxaca
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, Michoacán
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, Guerrero
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, Jalisco
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, Sinaloa, Nayarit)
References
External links
Photos of ''Jouvea pilosa''
from San Diego State University
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.
Chloridoideae
Poaceae genera
Dioecious plants
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