Eriochloa

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]
  • 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, Swaziland, 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, Swaziland, 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[3]

Eriochloa
Eriochloa polystachya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Subtribe: Melinidinae
Genus: Eriochloa
Kunth
Type species
Eriochloa distachya
Synonyms[3]
  • Helopus Trin.
  • Oedipachne Link
  • Aglycia Willd. ex Steud.
  • Alycia Willd. ex Steud.

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

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