Biology:Polytrias

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Short description: Genus of plants

Polytrias
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Saccharinae
Genus: Polytrias
Hack.
Species:
P. indica
Binomial name
Polytrias indica
(Houtt.) Veldkamp
Synonyms[1][2][3]
  • Aethonopogon Hack. ex Kuntze
  • Eulalia subg. Polytrias (Hack.) Ohwi
  • Eulalia sect. Polytrias (Hackel) Pilger.
  • Phleum indicum Houtt.
  • Polytrias amaura (Buse) Kuntze
  • Aethonopogon praemorsus Hack. ex Kuntze
  • Pollinia praemorsa Nees
  • Polytrias racemosa (Nees) Hack.
  • Ischaemum indicum (Houtt.) Merr.
  • Andropogon amaurus Buse
  • Andropogon diversiflorus Steud.
  • Andropogon firmandus Steud.
  • Pollinia praemorsa Nees ex Steud.
  • Polytrias praemorsa (Nees ex Steud.) Hack.
  • Aethonopogon praemorsus Hack. ex Kuntze
  • Polytrias amaura var. pallida Kuntze
  • Polytrias diversiflora (Steud.) Nash
  • Eulalia praemorsa (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf ex Ridl.
  • Eulalia amaura Ohwi
  • Pogonatherum amaurum Roberty
  • Eulalia nana Keng & S.L.Chen
  • Polytrias amaura var. nana (Keng & S.L.Chen) S.L.Chen
  • Polytrias indica var. nana (Keng & S.L.Chen) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen

Polytrias is a genus of Asian, African, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, commonly called Java grass, Batiki bluegrass, Indian murainagrass, or toto grass.[4][3] The only known species is Polytrias indica, native to West Africa (from Senegal to Cameroon), Seychelles, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China , Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Fiji, and Micronesia. It is also cultivated as a lawn grass in other tropical regions, and naturalized in scattered locations in tropical North and South America.[1][2][5]

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