Biology:Ehrharta

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Ehrharta
Ehrharta calycina plant5 (8677836542).jpg
Ehrharta calycina
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Oryzoideae
Tribe: Ehrharteae
Genus: Ehrharta
Thunb.
Type species
Ehrharta capensis
Synonyms[1]
  • Trochera L.C.M.Richard
  • Tetrarrhena R.Br.
  • Diplax Sol. ex Benn.

Ehrharta is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3]

Most of the species are native to Africa, with a few from Southeast Asia and from various islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The genus is also found in Australia, southern Asia, the Mediterranean, and North America. Several including Ehrharta longiflora, Ehrharta calycina and Ehrharta erecta are considered invasive weeds.[4][5][6][7]

Common names for this genus include veldtgrass.[8][9][10]

This genus was named for the German botanist Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, 1742–1795.[2][11]

Species

[1][12]

  • Ehrharta acuminata (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia
  • Ehrharta barbinodis Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta brevifolia Schrad. - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta bulbosa Sm. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta calycina Sm. - Cape Province, Namibia, Free State, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Mediterranean, Australia, New Zealand, USA (California, Nevada, Texas)
  • Ehrharta capensis Thunb. - Cape Province; naturalized in India
  • Ehrharta delicatula Stapf - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta digyna Thunb. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta diplax F.Muell. - Sulawesi, New Guinea, New Zealand incl Antipodes, Fiji, Society Is
  • Ehrharta distichophylla Labill. - Australia
  • Ehrharta dura Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta eburnea Gibbs Russ. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta erecta Lam. - from Eritrea + Saudi Arabia to Cape Province; naturalized in scattered locations in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, California
  • Ehrharta festucacea Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. - Madagascar
  • Ehrharta godefroyi C.Cordem. - Réunion
  • Ehrharta juncea (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia
  • Ehrharta laevis (R.Br.) Spreng. - Western Australia
  • Ehrharta longiflora Sm. - South Africa, Namibia; naturalized in Cape Verde, St. Helena, Canary Islands, Réunion, India, Australia, New Zealand, California
  • Ehrharta longifolia Schrad. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta longigluma C.E.Hubb. - South Africa, Lesotho
  • Ehrharta melicoides Thunb. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta microlaena Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta oreophila (D.I.Morris) L.P.M.Willemse - Tasmania
  • Ehrharta ottonis Kuntze ex Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta penicillata C.Cordem. - Réunion
  • Ehrharta pusilla Nees - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta ramosa Thunb. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta rehmannii Stapf - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta rupestris Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta setacea Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta tasmanica (Hook.f.) L.P.M.Willemse - Tasmania
  • Ehrharta thunbergii Gibbs Russ. - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta triandra Nees - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta villosa Schult.f. - Cape Province; naturalised in Australia, New Zealand North Island, Argentina


Formerly included

[1] Several species now considered better suited to other genera: Brylkinia Leersia Melinis Microlaena Sporobolus Tristachya Zotovia


References

Wikidata ☰ Q2477635 entry