Biology:Dichelachne

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Plumegrasses
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Dichelachne crinita
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Poodae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Echinopogoninae
Genus: Dichelachne
Endl.[1]
Type species
Dichelachne montana
(syn of D. micrantha)
Endl.

Dichelachne is a genus of Australia n, Indonesian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. They are known commonly as plumegrasses.[2][3][4]

Species

The genus includes the following species:[5][6]

  • Dichelachne crinita - longhair plumegrass, clovenfoot plumegrass - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, New Zealand (incl Chatham Is + Kermadec Is)
  • Dichelachne hirtella - New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia
  • Dichelachne inaequiglumis - Australia , New Zealand
  • Dichelachne lautumia - South I of New Zealand
  • Dichelachne micrantha - shorthair plumegrass - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, New Zealand (North I + Kermadec Is), Rapa Iti, Easter I
  • Dichelachne parva - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
  • Dichelachne rara - Australia , New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is
  • Dichelachne robusta - New South Wales, Victoria
  • Dichelachne sieberiana - Sieber's plumegrass - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania

Formerly included:[5]

See Anemanthele, Austrostipa, Calamagrostis, Lachnagrostis, and Oryzopsis.

References

  1. Endlicher, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus 1833. Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae 20-21 in Latin
  2. Dichelachne. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Veldkamp, J.F. 1974. A taxonomic revision of Dichelachne Endl. (Gramineae) with some new combination in Stipa L. and Oryzopsis. Blumea 22(1): 5–12.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. The Plant List search for Dichelachne

Wikidata ☰ Q2150687 entry