Jouvea

Jouvea is a Latin American genus of coastal plants in the grass family. It grows on mud flats and coastal sand dunes from northern Mexico to Ecuador.^[2][4][5][6]

Jouvea
Jouvea pilosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Tribe:	Cynodonteae
Genus:	Jouvea E.Fourn.[1][2]
Type species
Jouvea straminea E.Fourn.
Synonyms[3]
Rhachidospermum Vasey

Jouvea's closest relative in the subfamily Chloridoideae is likely Monanthochloe; both share the characteristic of distichously arranged leaves, and both are dioecious.^[2]

Jouvea was named for the French botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810–1883)^[7]

Species^{[3][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

• Jouvea pilosa (J.Presl) Scribn. – Central America (Guatemala to Nicaragua), Mexico (Tamaulipas, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán)
• Jouvea straminea E.Fourn. – Ecuador, Colombia, Central America (Guatemala to Panama), Mexico (Socorro Island, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit)