Biology:Eriochloa
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Short description: Genus of grasses
| Eriochloa | |
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| Eriochloa polystachya | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Panicodae |
| Tribe: | Paniceae |
| Subtribe: | Melinidinae |
| Genus: | Eriochloa Kunth |
| Type species | |
| Eriochloa distachya | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants[4][5] in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass.[citation needed] They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia , and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia.[2][6][7][8][9][10]
- Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from California to MD + FL), northern Argentina
- Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, California , MS)
- Eriochloa australiensis - Australia
- Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
- Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela
- Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from California to FL to MN), Ontario
- Eriochloa crebra - Australia
- Eriochloa distachya - Central + South America
- Eriochloa fatmensis – tropical cupgrass - sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula
- Eriochloa grandiflora - Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Paraguay, Misiones in Argentina , Minas Gerais in Brazil
- Eriochloa lemmonii – canyon cupgrass - USA (AZ, NM), northern + central Mexico
- Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
- Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar, Yemen
- Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (AL FL GA SC)
- Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
- Eriochloa nana - Argentina (Formosa, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero)
- Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
- Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
- Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
- Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
- Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
- Eriochloa procera - Australia , New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
- Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha - Australia
- Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (Texas LA GA MD)
- Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (Texas OK Kansas ), Coahuila, Tamaulipas
- Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
- Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
- Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
- Eriochloa subulifera - Aldabra, Madagascar
- Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
- Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
- Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl Ryukyu Is
- Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador
- formerly included[3]
see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa
References
- ↑ lectotype designated by G.V. Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 157 (18 Sep 1912)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Eriochloa Kunth
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 94–95 in Latin
- ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plates XXX-XXXI (30-31) line drawings of Eriochloa distachya and Eriochloa polystachya
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500, 524 野黍属 ye shu shu Eriochloa Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 94. 1816.
- ↑ Atlas of Living Australia
- ↑ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database, Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Eriochloa Kunth
- ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
- ↑ Grass Manual Treatment
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
Wikidata ☰ Q2107630 entry
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