Acostia

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|status_system = IUCN3.1

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|genus = Acostia

|parent_authority = Swallen

|authority = Swallen

|species = gracilis

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=387362 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms = *Panicum acostia R.D.Webster

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Acostia is a genus of South American plants in the grass family.{{cite web|url=http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/acostia.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references |accessdate=2009-08-19 |author=Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. |date=2008 |work=The Grass Genera of the World |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724222734/http://www.delta-intkey.com/grass/www/acostia.htm |archivedate=2008-07-24 }}[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00002.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]Swallen, Jason Richard 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 109[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9300725#page/407/mode/1up Webster, R. D., J. H. Kirkbride & J. V. Reyna. 1989. New World genera of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Sida 13(4): 393–417]

The only known species is Acostia gracilis, found only in Ecuador.{{cite web |title=Acostia Swallen {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295725-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 January 2022 |language=en}} It is listed as an endangered species.Laegaard, S. & Pitman, N. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/45965/all Panicum acostia]. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627000000/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ |date=2014-06-27 }} Downloaded on 20 July 2007.

The genus name of Acostia is in honour of Misael Acosta Solís (1910–1994), an Ecuadorian naturalist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition | trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 | format=pdf | language=German | location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | access-date=1 January 2021 | archive-date=2 April 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402092635/https://www.bgbm.org/de/node/3642 | url-status=live }} The Latin specific epithet of gracilis means "slender".{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. Vol.12 on page 109 in 1968.