Tricholaena

Tricholaena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Tricholaena
Schrad.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Melinis sect. Tricholaena (Schrad.) Hack.
  • Panicum sect. Tricholaena (Schrad.) Steud.
  • Xyochlaena Stapf
  • Eremochlamys Peter

Tricholaena is a genus of Asian, African, and Italian plants in the grass family.[3][1][4][5]

Species[2][6]
  1. Tricholaena capensis (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Nees - Free State, Namibia, Cape Province
  2. Tricholaena monachne (Trin.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - drier parts of Africa from Kenya to Cape Province; also Ghana, Togo, Madagascar, Réunion, Pakistan
  3. Tricholaena teneriffae (L.f.) Link - drier parts of Africa from Morocco to Egypt to Tanzania; Canary Islands; Cape Verde, Arabian Peninsula, Middle East, India, Pakistan, Calabria, Sicily[7]
  4. Tricholaena vestita (Balf.f.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - Socotra
formerly included[2]

see Brachiaria Digitaria Eriachne Melinis Miscanthus Paspalum Saccharum

  • Tricholaena abbreviata - Brachiaria serrata
  • Tricholaena amethystea - Melinis amethystea
  • Tricholaena atropurpurea - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena bellespicata - Melinis longiseta subsp. bellespicata
  • Tricholaena brevipila - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena busseana - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena chevalieri - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena chinensis - Eriachne pallescens
  • Tricholaena congoensis - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena dregeana - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena filifolia - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena fragilis - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena fusca - Miscanthus fuscus
  • Tricholaena grandiflora - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena grandiflora var. collina - Melinis repens subsp. repens
  • Tricholaena grandiflora var. glabrescens - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena insularis - Digitaria insularis
  • Tricholaena longiseta - Melinis longiseta
  • Tricholaena maroccana - Melinis repens subsp. maroccana
  • Tricholaena melinioides - Melinis longiseta
  • Tricholaena microstachya - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena microstachya var. albicoma - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena minutiflora - Melinis longiseta
  • Tricholaena monachyron - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena nerviglumis - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena obtecta - Paspalum humboldtianum
  • Tricholaena repens - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena rhodesiana - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena rosea - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena ruficoma - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena rupicola - Melinis rupicola
  • Tricholaena saccharoides - Digitaria insularis
  • Tricholaena scabrida - Melinis scabrida
  • Tricholaena semidecumbens - Saccharum spontaneum
  • Tricholaena setifolia - Melinis nerviglumis
  • Tricholaena sphacelata - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena tanatricha - Melinis tanatricha
  • Tricholaena tonsa - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena tuberculosa - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena uniglumis - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena villosa - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  • Tricholaena violacea - Melinis repens
  • Tricholaena wightii - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Tricholaena Schrad.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Schrader, Heinrich Adolph. 1824. Mantissa 2: 8, 163-165 in Latin
  4. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ↑ Flora of Pakistan, Tricholaena Schrad. in Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 2. Mant.: 163. 1824.
  6. ↑ The Plant List search for Tricholaena
  7. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Panico di Tenerife, Tricholaena teneriffae (L.f.) Link