Eriochloa

cupgrass
Eriochloa polystachya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Paniceae
Genus: Eriochloa
Kunth
Type species
Eriochloa distachya
Kunth[1][2]
Synonyms[3]

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, commonly callsed cupgrass.[4][5] 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]

Species[3][11]
  1. Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from CA to MD + FL), northern Argentina
  2. Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, CA, MS)
  3. Eriochloa australiensis - Australia
  4. Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
  5. Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela
  6. Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from CA to FL to MN), Ontario
  7. Eriochloa crebra - Australia
  8. Eriochloa distachya - Central + South America
  9. Eriochloa fatmensis – tropical cupgrass - sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula
  10. Eriochloa grandiflora - Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Paraguay, Misiones in Argentina, Minas Gerais in Brazil
  11. Eriochloa lemmonii – canyon cupgrass - USA (AZ, NM), northern + central Mexico
  12. Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
  13. Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar, Yemen
  14. Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (AL FL GA SC)
  15. Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
  16. Eriochloa nana - Argentina (Formosa, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero)
  17. Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
  18. Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
  19. Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
  20. Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
  21. Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
  22. Eriochloa procera - Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
  23. Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha - Australia
  24. Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (TX LA GA MD)
  25. Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
  26. Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (TX OK KS), Coahuila, Tamaulipas
  27. Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
  28. Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Swaziland, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
  29. Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
  30. Eriochloa subulifera - Aldabra, Madagascar
  31. Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
  32. Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
  33. Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl Ryukyu Is
  34. Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador
formerly included[3]

see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa

  • Eriochloa acrotricha - Panicum acrotrichum
  • Eriochloa bolbodes - Urochloa oligotricha
  • Eriochloa brasiliensis - Axonopus brasiliensis
  • Eriochloa castanea - Paspalum macranthecium
  • Eriochloa globosa - Isachne globosa
  • Eriochloa japonica - Isachne globosa
  • Eriochloa maidenii - Ancistrachne maidenii
  • Eriochloa pulchella - Panicum pulchellum
  • Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 - Brachiaria serrata
  • Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. 1841 - Panicum gossypinum
  • Eriochloa trichopus - Urochloa trichopus
  • Eriochloa vestita - Tricholaena vestita

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by G.V. Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 157 (18 Sep 1912)
  2. 1 2 Tropicos, Eriochloa Kunth
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 94–95 in Latin
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500, 524 野黍属 ye shu shu Eriochloa Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 94. 1816.
  7. ↑ Atlas of Living Australia
  8. ↑ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database, Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Eriochloa Kunth
  9. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
  10. ↑ Grass Manual Treatment
  11. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
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