Hordeum capense

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Hordeum capense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Tribe: Triticeae
Genus: Hordeum
Species:
H. capense
Binomial name
Hordeum capense
Synonyms[2]

Critesion capense (Thunb.) Á.Löve

Hordeum capense is a species of wild barley native to South Africa and Lesotho.[2] An allotetraploid, it arose from ancestors with the Xa and I Hordeum genomes.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 23 (1794)
  2. ^ a b "Hordeum capense Thunb". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  3. ^ Cuadrado, Ángeles; De Bustos, Alfredo; Jouve, Nicolás (2017). "On the allopolyploid origin and genome structure of the closely related species Hordeum secalinum and Hordeum capense inferred by molecular karyotyping". Annals of Botany. 120 (2): 245–255. doi:10.1093/aob/mcw270. PMC 5737408. PMID 28137705.