Eriochrysis

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Eriochrysis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe:
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Genus: Eriochrysis
P.Beauv.
Type species

P.Beauv.
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptosaccharum (Hack.) A.Camus

Eriochrysis is a genus of African and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Species[1][5]
  • (Stapf) Stapf - tropical + southern Africa - from Senegal to Swaziland
  • P.Beauv. - tropical Americas from Chiapas to Uruguay
  • Killeen - Bolivia, Brazil (E. cayennensis × E. laxa)
  • (Hack.) Filg. - Brazil, Paraguay
  • (Nees) Kuhlm. - Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
  • Swallen - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
  • Munro - tropical + southern Africa - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
  • (Rendle) Stapf - tropical Africa from Congo Rep to Zimbabwe
  • C.E.C.Fisch. - Tamil Nadu
  • Swallen - Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul)
  • (Hack.) Kuhlm. - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
formerly included[1]

see Miscanthus Saccharum

  • Eriochrysis attenuata - Miscanthus fuscus
  • Eriochrysis fusca - Miscanthus fuscus
  • Eriochrysis giordaniana -
  • Eriochrysis longifolia -
  • Eriochrysis narenga -
  • Eriochrysis porphyrocoma -

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie pages 8-9 description in Latin, commentary in French
  3. ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate IV (4), figure XI (11 a-e at lower right) line drawing of Eriochrysis cayennensis; figure captions on caption page 5
  4. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ^ The Plant List search for Eriochrysis


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