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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence of racemes along a central axis or a panicle condensed about the primary branches (E. meyeriana). Spikelets single, paired or clustered, elliptic, thinly biconvex, supported on a globular bead-like callus; lower glume vestigial (but present in E. meyeriana), adnate to the swollen basal internode; upper glume as long as spikelet, often with an awn; upper lemma coriaceous, granulate, usually mucronate.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Eriochloa Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=199
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Eriochloa

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Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants[4][5] in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass. 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]
formerly included[3]

see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa

References

  1. ^ lectotype designated by G.V. Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 157 (18 Sep 1912)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Eriochloa Kunth
  3. ^ a b c 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 Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
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Eriochloa: Brief Summary

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Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass. They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia.

Species Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from CA to MD + FL), northern Argentina Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, CA, MS) Eriochloa australiensis - Australia Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from CA 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 (TX LA GA MD) Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (TX OK KS), 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

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
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