Trident grasses
Tristachya leucothrix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Tristachyideae
Genus: Tristachya
Nees
Type species
Tristachya leiostachya
Synonyms[3]
  • Apochaete (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps
  • Dolichochaete (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps
  • Isalus J.B.Phipps
  • Loudetia Hochst. ex A.Braun, rejected name
  • Monopogon J.Presl
  • Muantijamvella J.B.Phipps
  • Veseyochloa J.B.Phipps

Tristachya (common name trident grasses) is a genus of African and Latin American plants in tribe Tristachyideae within the grass family.[2][4][5]

Species[3][6]
  • Tristachya angustifolia Hitchc. - Nayarit in western Mexico
  • Tristachya auronitens J.Duvign. - Zaïre
  • Tristachya avenacea (J.Presl) Scribn. & Merr. - Mexico, Central America
  • Tristachya bequaertii De Wild. - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
  • Tristachya betsileensis A.Camus - Madagascar
  • Tristachya bicrinita (J.B.Phipps) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia
  • Tristachya biseriata Stapf - Lesotho, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
  • Tristachya contrerasii R.Guzmán - Jalisco in western Mexico
  • Tristachya hubbardiana Conert - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
  • Tristachya huillensis Rendle - Zaïre, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
  • Tristachya humbertii A.Camus - Madagascar
  • Tristachya laxa Scribn. & Merr. - Mexico (Durango, Nayarit, Sinaloa)
  • Tristachya leiostachya Nees - Paraguay, Brazil
  • Tristachya leucothrix Trin. ex Nees - central + southern Africa
  • Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B.Phipps - central + southern Africa
  • Tristachya nodiglumis K.Schum. - central + southern Africa
  • Tristachya papilosa R.Guzmán - Nayarit in western Mexico
  • Tristachya pedicellata Stent - Limpopo Province in South Africa
  • Tristachya rehmannii Hack. - central + southern Africa
  • Tristachya superba (De Not.) Schweinf. & Asch. - sub-Saharan Africa
  • Tristachya thollonii Franch. - from Chad to Angola
  • Tristachya viridearistata (J.B.Phipps) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi
formerly included[3]

see Danthoniopsis Dilophotriche Loudetia Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Zonotriche

  • Tristachya anthoxanthoides - Loudetia vanderystii
  • Tristachya arundinacea - Loudetia arundinacea
  • Tristachya aurea - Zonotriche inamoena
  • Tristachya barbata - Danthoniopsis barbata
  • Tristachya bricchettiana - Danthoniopsis barbata
  • Tristachya chevalieri - Loudetiopsis chevalieri
  • Tristachya chrysothrix - Loudetiopsis chrysothrix
  • Tristachya coarctata - Loudetiopsis coarctata
  • Tristachya decora - Zonotriche decora
  • Tristachya dregeana - Trichopteryx dregeana
  • Tristachya elegans - Loudetia simplex
  • Tristachya esculenta - Loudetia esculenta
  • Tristachya fulva - Loudetiopsis chrysothrix
  • Tristachya glabrinodis - Loudetiopsis kerstingii
  • Tristachya inamoena - Zonotriche inamoena
  • Tristachya kagerensis - Loudetia kagerensis
  • Tristachya kerstingii - Loudetiopsis kerstingii
  • Tristachya microstachya - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
  • Tristachya minuta - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
  • Tristachya multinodis - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
  • Tristachya parviflora - Loudetiopsis ambiens
  • Tristachya pilgeriana - Zonotriche decora
  • Tristachya purpurea - Dilophotriche purpurea
  • Tristachya ringoetii - Zonotriche inamoena
  • Tristachya scaettae - Loudetiopsis scaettae
  • Tristachya simplex - Loudetia simplex
  • Tristachya somalensis - Danthoniopsis barbata
  • Tristachya stocksii - Danthoniopsis stocksii
  • Tristachya tristachyoides - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
  • Tristachya triticoides - Loudetia coarctata
  • Tristachya tuberculata - Dilophotriche tristachyoides

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Swallen, N. Amer. Fl 17(8): 578 (14 Jul 1939)
  2. 1 2 Tropicos, Tristachya Nees
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Hoare, D. B. "Tristachya leucothrix Nees". FAO. CIAT/FAO collaboration on Tropical Forages. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 458
  6. ↑ The Plant List search for Tristachya


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.