Hyparrhenia

Genus of grasses

Thatching grass
Hyparrhenia rufa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Andropogoninae
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]
  • Hyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province
  • Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola
  • Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia
  • Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi
  • Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia
  • Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa
  • Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi
  • Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)
  • Hyparrhenia claytonii - Ethiopia
  • Hyparrhenia coleotricha - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
  • Hyparrhenia collina - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hyparrhenia confinis - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia
  • Hyparrhenia coriacea - Central African Rep
  • Hyparrhenia cyanescens from Gambia to Zaïre
  • Hyparrhenia cymbaria - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India
  • Hyparrhenia dichroa - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hyparrhenia diplandra - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi
  • Hyparrhenia dregeana - from Yemen and Eritrea to Eswatini
  • Hyparrhenia dybowskii - Zaïre, Central African Rep
  • Hyparrhenia exarmata - from Mali to Kenya
  • Hyparrhenia familiaris - from Guinea to Angola
  • Hyparrhenia figariana - from Nigeria to Tanzania
  • Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
  • Hyparrhenia finitima - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga
  • Hyparrhenia formosa - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi
  • Hyparrhenia gazensis - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hyparrhenia glabriuscula - tropical Africa
  • Hyparrhenia gossweileri - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
  • Hyparrhenia griffithii - 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
  • Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep
  • Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique
  • Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi
  • Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan
  • Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia
  • Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa (from Guinea to Eswatini), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
  • Hyparrhenia niariensis - from Cameroon to Zambia
  • Hyparrhenia nyassae - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Hyparrhenia papillipes - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar
  • Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep
  • Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi
  • Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal
  • Hyparrhenia rudis - 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
  • Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar
  • Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep
  • Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe
  • Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho
  • Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia
  • Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros
  • Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar
  • Hyparrhenia violascens - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon
  • Hyparrhenia welwitschii - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros
  • 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. ^ a b c 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". Archived from the original on 2015-02-01. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
  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.
Taxon identifiers
Hyparrhenia
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