Sartidia

Sartidia is a genus of herbaceous plants belonging to the Poaceae family. It is native to South Africa. It comprises 5 described and accepted species.

Description

They are perennial plants; densely tufted, with stems 80-200 cm tall; herbaceous; not branched. Culm nodes glabrous. solid internodes. Disarmed plants. Young leaf buds are not basally aggregated; linear sheets; narrow; 2-4 mm wide; laminated; not pseudopetiolate; without venation; persistent; laminated in bud. Ligule with a fringed membrane, or a fringe of hairs; truncated; 0.3-1 mm long, contraligula present (as a line of hairs, in S. jucunda), or absent. Bisexual plants, with bisexual spikelets; with hermaphrodite flowers. The inflorescences are paniculate; open; spataceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Bernard De Winter and published in Kirkia 3: 137. 1963. The type species is: Sartidia angolensis (C.E.Hubb.) De Winter

Etymology

Sartidia: generic name given by the anagram of Aristida, a genus of the same family.

Cytology

The basic chromosome number is x = 11, with somatic chromosome numbers of 2n = 22. diploid

Accepted species

The following is a list of the species of the genus Sartidia accepted up to November 2013, arranged alphabetically. For each one, the binomial name followed by the author is indicated, abbreviated according to conventions and uses.

• Sartidia angolensis (C.E.Hubb.) De Winter
• Sartidia jucunda (Schweick.) De Winter
• Sartidia perrieri (A.Camus) Bourreil
• Sartidia vanderystii (From Wild.) De Winter