Tricholaena

Perennials, rarely annuals. Leaves: lamina rigid, glaucous, frequently involute. Inflorescence a panicle. Spikelets slightly laterally flattened, awnless; lower glume small or suppressed, upper as long as spikelet, thinly membranous; lower floret male, its lemma resembling the upper glume, 5(-7)-nerved; upper lemma smaller than the lower, dorsally flattened, firmly cartilaginous, smooth and shining, white.

Tricholaena is a genus of Asian, African, and Italian plants in the grass family.

Species Tricholaena capensis (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Nees - Free State, Namibia, Cape Province Tricholaena monachne (Trin.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - drier parts of Africa from Kenya to Cape Province; also Ghana, Togo, Madagascar, Réunion, Pakistan 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 Tricholaena vestita (Balf.f.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - Socotra formerly included

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