Hyparrhenia
Thatching grass | |
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Hyparrhenia rufa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Supertribe: | |
Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
Subtribe: | |
Genus: | Hyparrhenia Andersson ex Fourn. |
Type species | |
(Kunth) Andersson ex Fourn.[1]
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses.[3][4] Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.[5][6][7][8]
They are mostly native to tropical Africa; some can be found in warmer areas in temperate Eurasia, Australia, and Latin America. These are annual and perennial bunch grasses. The inflorescence branches into twin spikes of paired spikelets.[9][10][11]
- Species[2]
- - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province
- - Angola
- - Zambia
- - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi
- - Ethiopia
- - West Africa
- - from Burkina Faso to Malawi
- - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)
- - Ethiopia
- - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
- - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
- - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia
- - Central African Rep
- from Gambia to Zaïre
- - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India
- - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal
- - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi
- - from Yemen + Eritrea to Swaziland
- - Zaïre, Central African Rep
- - from Mali to Kenya
- - from Guinea to Angola
- - from Nigeria to Tanzania
- Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
- - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga
- - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi
- - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal
- - tropical Africa
- - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
- - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America
- - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep
- - from South Sudan to Mozambique
- - from Ethiopia to Malawi
- - Ethiopia + Sudan
- - Ethiopia
- - Africa (from Guinea to Swaziland), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
- - from Cameroon to Zambia
- - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam
- - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar
- - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
- - Central African Rep
- - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
- - Sulawesi
- - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal
- - tropical Africa, Madagascar
- Hyparrhenia rufa - tropical - southern Africa; Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Florida, Texas, Latin America (from Chihuahua to Paraguay); various islands in Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean
- - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar
- - from Guinea to Congo Rep
- - from Guinea to Zimbabwe
- - from Eritrea to Lesotho
- - Ethiopia
- - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros
- - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar
- - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon
- - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros
- - Cameroon, Congo Rep, Zaïre
- formerly included[2]
see Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia
- Hyparrhenia abyssinica - Exotheca abyssinica
- Hyparrhenia archaelymandra -
- Hyparrhenia baddadae -
- Hyparrhenia cornucopiae -
- Hyparrhenia dissoluta - Hyperthelia dissoluta
- Hyparrhenia djalonica -
- Hyparrhenia edulis -
- Hyparrhenia eylesii -
- Hyparrhenia grallata -
- Hyparrhenia jaegeriana -
- Hyparrhenia lithophila -
- Hyparrhenia macrolepis - Hyperthelia dissoluta
- Hyparrhenia monathera - Exotheca abyssinica
- Hyparrhenia pusilla -
- Hyparrhenia sulcata -
References[]
- ^ lectotype designated by Clayton, Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 2: 38 (1969)
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Fournier, Eugène Pierre Nicolas. 1886. Mexicanas Plantas 2: 51, 67 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Hyparrhenia Andersson ex E. Fourn
- ^ Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 631 苞茅属 bao mao shu Hyparrhenia Andersson ex Fournier, Mexic. Pl. 2: 51, 67. 1886.
- ^ "Altervista Flora Italiana genere hyparrhenia". Archived from the original on 2015-02-01. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia
- ^ Filgueiras, T. S. 1981. O genero Hyparrhenia (Gramineae) no Brasil. Anais do XXXII Congresso Nacional de Botanica 44–57.
- ^ Pohl, R. W. 1994. 164. Hyparrhenia Andersson ex Fourn. 6: 393–394. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..
- ^ Sanbi, Red List of South African Plants
External links[]
Categories:
- Panicoideae
- Poaceae genera