Hemarthria

Jointgrasses
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:
Tribe:	Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Genus:	Hemarthria R.Br.[1]
Type species
(L.f.) R.Br.[2]
Synonyms[3]
Lodicularia P.Beauv.

Hemarthria is a genus of herbaceous plants in the grass family. They occur in the tropical and subtropical Old World, especially in China and Southeast Asia, with some species in Africa, Australia, and southern Europe.^[4] They may be known generally as jointgrasses.^[5][6][7][8]

Species^[3]

• Hemarthria altissima (Poir.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - limpograss, African jointgrass, Batavian quick grass, halt grass - China, India, Indochina, Borneo, Madagascar, Mauritius, Middle East, Caucasus, Africa, Canary Islands, Spain, Italy, Greece; naturalized in parts of North + South America
• (L.f.) R.Br. - whip grass - China, Japan, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Borneo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Comoros
• Bor - Thailand
• Heuvel- Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
• Steud. - India, Bangladesh
• (Hook.f.) A.Camus - China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Borneo
• Stapf - eastern + south-central Africa
• (Balansa) Clayton - Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea
• Steud. - Guangdong, eastern Himalayas, southeast Asia, New Guinea
• (Gand.) Ohwi - China, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia (Amur Oblast, Primorye, Khabarovsk)
• Bor - Thailand
• R.Br. - matgrass - Western Australia

formerly included

see Coelorachis Mnesithea

• Hemarthria perforata -
• Hemarthria rugosa -

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