Tristachya

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Trident grasses
Tristachya leucothrix, blompakkie, Skeerpoort.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Tristachyideae
Genus: Tristachya
Nees
Type species

Synonyms[3]
  • Apochaete (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps
  • Dolichochaete (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps
  • Isalus J.B.Phipps
  • Loudetia Hochst. ex A.Braun, rejected name
  • Monopogon J.Presl
  • Muantijamvella J.B.Phipps
  • Veseyochloa J.B.Phipps

Tristachya (common name trident grasses) is a genus of African and Latin American plants in tribe Tristachyideae within the grass family.[2][4][5]

Species[3][6]
  • Hitchc. - Nayarit in western Mexico
  • J.Duvign. - Zaïre
  • (J.Presl) Scribn. & Merr. - Mexico, Central America
  • De Wild. - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
  • A.Camus - Madagascar
  • (J.B.Phipps) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia
  • Stapf - Lesotho, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
  • R.Guzmán - Jalisco in western Mexico
  • Conert - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
  • Rendle - Zaïre, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
  • A.Camus - Madagascar
  • Scribn. & Merr. - Mexico (Durango, Nayarit, Sinaloa)
  • Nees - Paraguay, Brazil
  • Trin. ex Nees - central + southern Africa
  • (De Wild.) J.B.Phipps - central + southern Africa
  • K.Schum. - central + southern Africa
  • R.Guzmán - Nayarit in western Mexico
  • Stent - Limpopo Province in South Africa
  • Hack. - central + southern Africa
  • (De Not.) Schweinf. & Asch. - sub-Saharan Africa
  • Franch. - from Chad to Angola
  • (J.B.Phipps) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi
formerly included[3]

see Danthoniopsis Dilophotriche Loudetia Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Zonotriche

  • Tristachya anthoxanthoides -
  • Tristachya arundinacea -
  • Tristachya aurea -
  • Tristachya barbata -
  • Tristachya bricchettiana -
  • Tristachya chevalieri -
  • Tristachya chrysothrix -
  • Tristachya coarctata -
  • Tristachya decora -
  • Tristachya dregeana -
  • Tristachya elegans - Loudetia simplex
  • Tristachya esculenta -
  • Tristachya fulva -
  • Tristachya glabrinodis -
  • Tristachya inamoena -
  • Tristachya kagerensis -
  • Tristachya kerstingii -
  • Tristachya microstachya -
  • Tristachya minuta -
  • Tristachya multinodis -
  • Tristachya parviflora -
  • Tristachya pilgeriana -
  • Tristachya purpurea -
  • Tristachya ringoetii -
  • Tristachya scaettae -
  • Tristachya simplex - Loudetia simplex
  • Tristachya somalensis -
  • Tristachya stocksii -
  • Tristachya tristachyoides -
  • Tristachya triticoides -
  • Tristachya tuberculata -

References[]

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Swallen, N. Amer. Fl 17(8): 578 (14 Jul 1939)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Tristachya Nees
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Hoare, D. B. "Tristachya leucothrix Nees". FAO. CIAT/FAO collaboration on Tropical Forages. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  5. ^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 458
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Tristachya

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