Coelorachis

Coelorachis
Coelorachis cylindrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Coelorachis
Brongn.
Type species
Coelorachis muricata
(Retz.) Brongn.[1][2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Rottboellia subg. Coelorhachis (Brongn.) Hack.

Coelorachis is a genus of plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.[3][4]

Coelorhachis is treated by some sources as part of the genus Mnesithea, so the following species can generally be found under that name in those listings.[5][6]

Species[7][8][9]
  1. Coelorachis afraurita (Stapf) Stapf - tropical Africa
  2. Coelorachis aurita (Steud.) A.Camus - tropical America from Chiapas + Trinidad to Paraguay
  3. Coelorachis balansae (Hack.) A.Camus - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
  4. Coelorachis cancellata (Ridl.) Bor - Bangka, Pen Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
  5. Coelorachis capensis Stapf - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
  6. Coelorachis clarkei (Hack.) Blatt. & McCann - India, Myanmar
  7. Coelorachis cylindrica (Michx.) Nash - southeastern + south-central USA
  8. Coelorachis geminata (Hack.) Clayton - Pen Malaysia, Thailand, Kalimantan
  9. Coelorachis glandulosa (Trin.) Stapf ex Ridl. - Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
  10. Coelorachis helferi (Hook.f.) Henrard - Pen Malaysia, Indochina
  11. Coelorachis impressa (Griseb.) Nash - Cuba
  12. Coelorachis khasiana (Hack.) Stapf ex Bor - Yunnan, Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
  13. Coelorachis lepidura Stapf - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  14. Coelorachis parodiana Henrard - Paraguay, Argentina
  15. Coelorachis ramosa (E.Fourn.) Nash - tropical America from Veracruz to southern Brazil
  16. Coelorachis rottboellioides (R.Br.) A.Camus - Australia, New Guinea, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands
  17. Coelorachis rugosa (Nutt.) Nash - Cuba; USA from Texas to New Jersey
  18. Coelorachis selloana (Hack.) A.Camus - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
  19. Coelorachis striata (Steud.) A.Camus - Yunnan, Indochina, eastern Himalayas
  20. Coelorachis tessellata (Steud.) Nash - USA (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi)
  21. Coelorachis tuberculosa (Nash) Nash - Cuba; USA (Alabama, Florida, Georgia)
formerly included[7]

see Eremochloa Hemarthria Lasiurus Mnesithea Phacelurus Rhytachne Rottboellia

  • Coelorachis fasciculata - Phacelurus huillensis
  • Coelorachis forsteriana - Rottboellia coelorachis
  • Coelorachis hirsuta - Lasiurus scindicus
  • Coelorachis laevispica - Rottboellia laevispica
  • Coelorachis loricata - Rhytachne rottboellioides
  • Coelorachis mollicoma - Mnesithea mollicoma
  • Coelorachis muricata - Eremochloa muricata
  • Coelorachis pratensis - Hemarthria pratensis
  • Coelorachis undulatifolia - Phacelurus huillensis

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Koning & Sosef, Blumea 31: 293 (1986)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Coelorachis Brongn.
  3. ↑ Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore. 1831. Voyage Autour du Monde 2(2): 64, f. 14
  4. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 642 毛俭草属 mao jian cao shu Mnesithea Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 153. 1829.
  6. ↑ Atlas of Living Australia, Mnesithea Kunth, Jointtail Grass
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  8. ↑ The Plant List search for Coelorachis
  9. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps