Hyparrhenia















































thatching grass

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Hyparrhenia rufa

Scientific classification
Kingdom:

Plantae

(unranked):

Angiosperms

(unranked):

Monocots

(unranked):

Commelinids

Order:

Poales

Family:

Poaceae

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Genus:

Hyparrhenia


Andersson ex Fourn.


Type species

Hyparrhenia foliosa
(Kunth) Andersson ex Fourn.[1]


Synonyms[2]

Dybowskia Stapf



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]



  1. Hyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province


  2. Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola


  3. Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia


  4. Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi


  5. Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia


  6. Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa


  7. Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi


  8. Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)


  9. Hyparrhenia claytonii - Ethiopia


  10. Hyparrhenia coleotricha - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen


  11. Hyparrhenia collina - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal


  12. Hyparrhenia confinis - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia


  13. Hyparrhenia coriacea - Central African Rep


  14. Hyparrhenia cyanescens from Gambia to Zaïre


  15. Hyparrhenia cymbaria - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India


  16. Hyparrhenia dichroa - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal


  17. Hyparrhenia diplandra - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi


  18. Hyparrhenia dregeana - from Yemen + Eritrea to Swaziland


  19. Hyparrhenia dybowskii - Zaïre, Central African Rep


  20. Hyparrhenia exarmata - from Mali to Kenya


  21. Hyparrhenia familiaris - from Guinea to Angola


  22. Hyparrhenia figariana - from Nigeria to Tanzania


  23. Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales


  24. Hyparrhenia finitima - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga


  25. Hyparrhenia formosa - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi


  26. Hyparrhenia gazensis - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal


  27. Hyparrhenia glabriuscula - tropical Africa


  28. Hyparrhenia gossweileri - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia


  29. Hyparrhenia griffithii - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Vietnam


  30. Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America


  31. Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep


  32. Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique


  33. Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi


  34. Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan


  35. Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia


  36. Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa (from Guinea to Swaziland), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea


  37. Hyparrhenia niariensis - from Cameroon to Zambia


  38. Hyparrhenia nyassae - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam


  39. Hyparrhenia papillipes - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar


  40. Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal


  41. Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep


  42. Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal


  43. Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi


  44. Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal


  45. Hyparrhenia rudis - tropical Africa, Madagascar


  46. 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


  47. Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar


  48. Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep


  49. Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe


  50. Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho


  51. Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia


  52. Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros


  53. Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar


  54. Hyparrhenia violascens - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon


  55. Hyparrhenia welwitschii - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros


  56. Hyparrhenia wombaliensis - Cameroon, Congo Rep, Zaïre


formerly included[2]

see Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia




  • Hyparrhenia abyssinica - Exotheca abyssinica

  • Hyparrhenia archaelymandra - Elymandra archaelymandra

  • Hyparrhenia baddadae - Elymandra grallata

  • Hyparrhenia cornucopiae - Hyperthelia cornucopiae

  • Hyparrhenia dissoluta - Hyperthelia dissoluta

  • Hyparrhenia djalonica - Parahyparrhenia annua

  • Hyparrhenia edulis - Hyperthelia edulis

  • Hyparrhenia eylesii - Elymandra grallata

  • Hyparrhenia grallata - Elymandra grallata

  • Hyparrhenia jaegeriana - Parahyparrhenia annua

  • Hyparrhenia lithophila - Elymandra lithophila

  • Hyparrhenia macrolepis - Hyperthelia dissoluta

  • Hyparrhenia monathera - Exotheca abyssinica

  • Hyparrhenia pusilla - Andropogon pusillus

  • Hyparrhenia sulcata - Parahyparrhenia annua




References





  1. ^ lectotype designated by Clayton, Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 2: 38 (1969)


  2. ^ abc Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families


  3. ^ Fournier, Eugène Pierre Nicolas. 1886. Mexicanas Plantas 2: 51, 67 in Latin


  4. ^ Tropicos, Hyparrhenia Andersson ex E. Fourn


  5. ^ Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.


  6. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 631 苞茅属 bao mao shu Hyparrhenia Andersson ex Fournier, Mexic. Pl. 2: 51, 67. 1886.


  7. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana genere hyparrhenia


  8. ^ Atlas of Living Australia


  9. ^ Filgueiras, T. S. 1981. O genero Hyparrhenia (Gramineae) no Brasil. Anais do XXXII Congresso Nacional de Botanica 44–57.


  10. ^ 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..


  11. ^ Sanbi, Red List of South African Plants




External links



  • Jepson Manual Treatment

  • Grass Manual Treatment

  • USDA Plants: North American Species

  • Photo: Double Spikes


  • Hyparrhenia in West African plants – A Photo Guide.









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