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Alexfloydia is a genus of perennial stoloniferous grasses in the panic grass subfamily of the Poaceae grass family.[1][2]

This genus is endemic to coastal eastern New South Wales in Australia.

There is one known species, Alexfloydia repens.[3] This genus was named in honour of the species discoverer, Australian botanist Alexander Floyd (1926-2022).[4][5]

Habitat and distribution

Alexfloydia repens is a spreading, mat-forming grass found on the margins of brackish and tidal waterways in areas flooded by unusually high tides (called "king tides").[6] The species forms a groundcover associated with the tree species Casuarina glauca and the Endangered Ecological Community Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest. Currently this grass is known only from a few locations in the Coffs Harbour region.

Status

This species is listed as Endangered on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Act.[7]

Ecology

Alexfloydia repens is the sole larval food plant for the endangered Black grass-dart butterfly (Ocybadistes knightorum) (Lambkin & Donaldson, 1994).[8]

See also

References

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  1. Шаблон:Cite web
  2. Simon, B.K. 1992. Studies in Australian grasses 6. Alexfloydia, Cliffordiochloa and Dallwatsonia, three new panicoid grass genera from Eastern Australia. Austrobaileya 3:669-681.
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  5. Atlas of Living Australia, Alexfloydia B.K.Simon
  6. Tidal Variations — The Influence of Position and Distance NOAA ocean service education
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  8. Шаблон:Cite web