Sacciolepis

Sacciolepis is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3] Cupscale grass is a common name for plants in this genus.[4]

Sacciolepis
Sacciolepis indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Panicodae
Tribe: Paniceae
Genus: Sacciolepis
Nash
Type species
Sacciolepis gibba
(syn of S. striata)[1]
(Elliott) Nash
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhampholepis Stapf

They are widespread in tropical and warmer temperate regions. Many are native to Africa, with others in Asia, Australia, and the Americas.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

These species are annual or perennial and may have rhizomes or stolons. The inflorescence is usually a narrow, dense panicle. They generally grow in moist habitat, such as marshes and streambanks.[7] Sacciolepis is closely related to genus Panicum.[5][6]

Species[1][11][12][13]
  • Sacciolepis africana - Africa from Senegal to KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar
  • Sacciolepis angustissima - from the Guianas to Bolivia + Peru
  • Sacciolepis antsirabensis - Madagascar
  • Sacciolepis arenaria - Angola
  • Sacciolepis catumbensis - Angola, Zambia
  • Sacciolepis chevalieri - Africa from Senegal to KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar
  • Sacciolepis ciliocincta - Africa from Senegal to Sudan + Congo Rep
  • Sacciolepis cingularis - Sudan, Chad, Congo Rep
  • Sacciolepis clatrata - Central African Rep
  • Sacciolepis curvata - eastern + southeastern Africa from Kenya to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka
  • Sacciolepis cymbiandra - West Africa from Senegal to Nigeria
  • Sacciolepis fenestrata - Thailand
  • Sacciolepis indica - glenwood grass, Chase's glenwood grass, Indian cupscale grass - Africa from Guinea to Cape Province; Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion, Indian Subcontinent, East + Southeast Asia, Australia; naturalized in New Zealand, southeastern USA, scattered places in Latin America and Pacific
  • Sacciolepis interrupta - tropical Asia, tropical Africa
  • Sacciolepis leptorachis - tropical Africa
  • Sacciolepis micrococca - tropical Africa, Madagascar
  • Sacciolepis myosuroides - tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia, Australia
  • Sacciolepis myuros - tropical America from central Mexico to Trinidad + Bolivia
  • Sacciolepis otachyrioides - Colombia (Meta), Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Guárico), Guyana (Rupununi), Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amazonas, Roraima)
  • Sacciolepis seslerioides - Congo Rep, Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola
  • Sacciolepis striata - southeastern USA from Texas to Delaware;[14] Greater Antilles, Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco), Central America, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guianas, Amapá
  • Sacciolepis tenuissima - Thailand
  • Sacciolepis transbarbata - Tanzania, Burundi, Zaire, Zambia, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe
  • Sacciolepis typhura - Africa from Ivory Coast to Swaziland
  • Sacciolepis viguieri - Madagascar
  • Sacciolepis vilvoides - Cuba, South America from Venezuela to Uruguay
formerly included[1]

see Hymenachne Panicum

  • Sacciolepis aurita - Panicum auritum
  • Sacciolepis donacifolia - Hymenachne donacifolia
  • Sacciolepis insulicola - Panicum auritum
  • Sacciolepis longissima - Panicum longissimum
  • Sacciolepis polymorpha - Panicum auritum
  • Sacciolepis semienensis - Panicum hymeniochilum

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Nash, George Valentine. 1901. Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada page 89 in English
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. "Sacciolepis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  5. Judziewicz, E. J. (1990). A new South American species of Sacciolepis (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae), with a summary of the genus in the New World. Systematic Botany 15(3) 415-20.
  6. Simon, B. K. (1972). A revision of the genus Sacciolepis (Gramineae) in the 'Flora Zambesiaca' area. Kew Bulletin 27(3) 387-406.
  7. Wipff, J. K. Sacciolepis Nash. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.
  8. Flora of China, Vol. 22 Page 500, 510, 511 囊颖草属 nang ying cao shu Sacciolepis Nash, Man. Fl. N. States. 89. 1901.
  9. Atlas of Living Australia, Sacciolepis R.C.Nash, Cupscale Grass
  10. Sanbi Red List of South African Plants
  11. The Plant List search for Sacciolepis
  12. Sacciolepis Species List. Germplasm Resources Information Network.
  13. Quattrocchi, U. CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology, Volume 1. CRC Press. 2006. pg. 1937.
  14. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
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