Bothriochloa

beardgrass
bluestem
Bothriochloa pertusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Genus: Bothriochloa
Kuntze[1]
Type species
Bothriochloa anamitica
(syn of B. bladhii)
Kuntze[2]
Synonyms[3][2]
  • Amphilophis Nash
  • Dichanthium sect. Bothriochloa (Kuntze) Roberty

Bothriochloa is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family native to many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands.[4] They are often called beardgrass or bluestem.[5][6]

The name is derived from the Greek words "bothrio" meaning "trench" and "chloa" meaning "blade of grass."[7]

Species[3]
  1. Bothriochloa alta (Hitchc.) Henrard – tall beardgrass - Americas from New Mexico to Argentina
  2. Bothriochloa barbinodis (Lag.) Herter– cane bluestem - USA (CO MO OK AZ CA NV UT TX NM FL SC), Mexico, El Salvador, South America (from Colombia to Paraguay)
  3. Bothriochloa biloba S.T.Blake - Queensland, New South Wales
  4. Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.) S.T.Blake – Asia (Yemen to Caucasus to Japan to Maluku), Australia, New Guinea, Africa, Madagascar
  5. Bothriochloa bunyensis B.K.Simon - Queensland
  6. Bothriochloa campii (Swallen) De Wet - Ecuador
  7. Bothriochloa compressa (Hook.f.) Henrard - India, Lesser Sunda Islands
  8. Bothriochloa decipiens (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. - Australia
  9. Bothriochloa edwardsiana (Gould) Parodi – Mexico, Texas, Argentina, Uruguay
  10. Bothriochloa ensiformis (Hook.f.) Henrard - India
  11. Bothriochloa erianthoides (F.Muell.) C.E.Hubb. - Queensland, New South Wales
  12. Bothriochloa eurylemma M.Marchi & Longhi-Wagner - Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul), Argentina (Entre Ríos, Chaco, Formosa, Tucumán, Salta)
  13. Bothriochloa ewartiana (Domin) C.E.Hubb. - Australia, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands
  14. Bothriochloa exaristata (Nash) Henrard – awnless beardgrass - southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, USA (TX LA)
  15. Bothriochloa grahamii (Haines) Bor - India
  16. Bothriochloa hirtifolia (J.Presl) Henrard - Mexico, Guatemala
  17. Bothriochloa hybrida (Gould) Gould – USA (TX LA), Mexico (from Chihuahua to Oaxaca)
  18. Bothriochloa imperatoides (Lillo) Herter - Rio Grande do Sul, northern Argentina, Uruguay
  19. Bothriochloa insculpta (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) A.Camus – sweetpitted grass - Africa, Madagascar, India, Arabian Peninsula, Spain, Sicily
  20. Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng – yellow bluestem - Eurasia + North Africa from Portugal + Canary Islands to Korea
  21. Bothriochloa kuntzeana (Hack.) Henrard - India, Nepal
  22. Bothriochloa laguroides (DC.) Herter – silver bluestem - Americas from Mexico to Chile
  23. Bothriochloa longifolia (Hack.) Bor - India
  24. Bothriochloa longipaniculata (Gould) Allred & Gould – longspike beardgrass - Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Argentina (Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa, Misiones), Paraguay, Guatemala, Mexico, USA (TX LA MS)
  25. Bothriochloa macra (Steud.) S.T.Blake - red-leg grass, red grass, redleg or pitted beard grass - Australia
  26. Bothriochloa meridionalis M.Marchi & Longhi-Wagner - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Rio Grande do Sul
  27. Bothriochloa modesta (Backer) Backer & Henrard - Java, Lesser Sunda Islands
  28. Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A.Camus – pitted beardgrass - China, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, islands of Indian Ocean + western Pacific
  29. Bothriochloa pseudischaemum (Nees ex Steud.) Henrard - India, Sri Lanka
  30. Bothriochloa radicans (Lehm.) A.Camus - eastern + southern Africa, Arabian Peninsula
  31. Bothriochloa saccharoides Rydb. - Americas from Utah to Uruguay
  32. Bothriochloa springfieldii (Gould) Parodi - USA (CO AZ UT TX NM LA), Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina
  33. Bothriochloa torreyana (Steud.) Scrivanti & Anton - southern USA (from CA to SC), Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
  34. Bothriochloa velutina M.Marchi & Longhi-Wagner - Paraná, Santa Catarina
  35. Bothriochloa woodrovii (Hook.f.) A.Camus - India
  36. Bothriochloa wrightii (Hack.) Henrard - Mexico, USA (TX NM AZ)


formerly included[3]

see Capillipedium Dichanthium Euclasta Hemisorghum Pseudosorghum

  • Bothriochloa assimilis - Capillipedium assimile
  • Bothriochloa concanensis - Dichanthium concanense
  • Bothriochloa foulkesii - Dichanthium foulkesii
  • Bothriochloa gracilis - Pseudosorghum fasciculare
  • Bothriochloa kwashotensis - Capillipedium kwashotense
  • Bothriochloa parviflora - Capillipedium parviflorum
  • Bothriochloa picta - Capillipedium assimile
  • Bothriochloa piptanthera - Euclasta condylotricha
  • Bothriochloa spicigera - Capillipedium spicigerum
  • Bothriochloa tuberculata - Dichanthium annulatum
  • Bothriochloa venusta - Hemisorghum venustum
  • Bothriochloa yunnanensis - Pseudosorghum fasciculare

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 762 description in Latin, commentary in German
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Bothriochloa Kuntze
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  5. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
  6. ↑ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
  7. ↑ Ellen Dorn, Native Plants of Arizona 2004, Bothriochloa barbinodis (Lag.) Herter