Zuloagaea

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|image = Zuloagaea bulbosa - Flickr - aspidoscelis.jpg

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|genus = Zuloagaea

|parent_authority = Bess Bess, E. C. et al. 2006. Zuloagaea, a new genus of neotropical grass within the "bristle clade" (Poaceae: Paniceae). Syst. Bot. 31:656-670. www.aspt.net/systematic-botany

|species = bulbosa

|authority = (Kunth) Bess

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Zuloagaea bulbosa (Kunth) Bess {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77076421-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 December 2022 |language=en}}

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|Panicum altissimum |Brouss. in Elench. Horti Bot. Monspel.: 42 (1805), nom. nud.

|Panicum avenaceum |Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 99 (1816)

|Panicum bulbosum |Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 99 (1816)

|Panicum bulbosum var. avenaceum |(Kunth) Beal in Grass. N. Amer. 2: 132 (1896)

|Panicum bulbosum var. minus |Vasey in Bull. Div. Bot. U.S.D.A. 8: 38 (1889)

|Panicum bulbosum subsp. sciaphilum |(E.Fourn.) Hitchc. & Chase in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 15: 83 (1910)

|Panicum bulbosum subvar. violaceum |E.Fourn. in Mexic. Pl. 2: 27 (1886)

|Panicum confusum |Trin. ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 254 (1841), pro syn.

|Panicum gongylodes |J.Jacq. in Ecl. Gram. Rar.: 30 (1814)

|Panicum maximum var. bulbosum |(Kunth) Vasey in J.T.Rothrock, Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv., Wheeler 6(Botany): 295 (1878 publ. 1879)

|Panicum maximum var. gongylodes |(J.Jacq.) Döll in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 2(2): 203 (1877)

|Panicum nodosum |Willd. ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 260 (1841), pro syn.

|Panicum paucifolium |Swallen in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 29: 417 (1950)

|Panicum polygamum var. gongylodes |(J.Jacq.) E.Fourn. in Mexic. Pl. 2: 28 (1886)

|Panicum sciaphilum |E.Fourn. in Mexic. Pl. 2: 19 (1886) }}

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Zuloagaea ('panic grass') is a monotypic genus of the central American plants in the grass family.Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Zuloagaea

It only contains one known species, Zuloagaea bulbosa {{Au|(Kunth) Bess}}{{cite web |title=Zuloagaea Bess {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77076420-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 December 2022 |language=en}} It was formerly known as Panicum bulbosum {{Au|Kunth}}

It is native to United States of America (within the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Utah) and also central America (within the countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua).

The genus was circumscribed by Emilie C. Bess in Systematic Botany vol.31 on page 666 in 2006.

The genus name of Zuloagaea is in honour of Fernando Omar Zuloaga (b.1951), an Argentinian botanist and Professor of Phytogeography from the National University of La Plata. He was between 1991 - 1998 curator and director of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

The genus and species is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, since 29 December 2006.{{cite web |title=12/29/2006 |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=451831 |website=npgsweb.ars-grin.gov |access-date=22 December 2022}}