Tripsacum

Tripsacum is a genus of plants in the grass family native to the Western Hemisphere.[3] Gamagrass is a common name for plants in this genus.[4]

Tripsacum
Tripsacum grass
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Tripsacinae
Genus: Tripsacum
L.
Type species
Tripsacum dactyloides
Synonyms[2]
  • Digitaria Adans. 1763, illegitimate homonym not Heist. ex Fabr. 1759
  • Dactylodes Zanoni-Monti ex Kuntze

Species

[2][5][6]

  • Tripsacum andersonii - from Veracruz to Bolivia
  • Tripsacum australe - South America
  • Tripsacum cundinamarce - Colombia
  • Tripsacum dactyloides - widespread in Latin America, West Indies, eastern USA[7]
  • Tripsacum intermedium - Guerrero, Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras
  • Tripsacum jalapense - Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador
  • Tripsacum lanceolatum - USA (AZ NM),[8] Mexico, Central America
  • Tripsacum latifolium - Mesoamerica, West Indies
  • Tripsacum laxum - Latin America, West Indies
  • Tripsacum maizar - Mexico, Guatemala
  • Tripsacum manisuroides - Chiapas
  • Tripsacum peruvianum - Peru, Ecuador
  • Tripsacum pilosum - Peru, Ecuador
  • Tripsacum zopilotense - Mexico, Guatemala

formerly included

[2] see Anthephora Apluda Chionachne Coelorachis Elionurus Hackelochloa Hemarthria Ischaemum Lasiurus Manisuris Microstegium Pogonatherum

References
  1. Tropicos, Tripsacum L.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1759. Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 1379 in Latin
  4. "Tripsacum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  5. Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2002 onwards). World Grass Species: Descriptions, Identification, and Information Retrieval. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html. (accessed 22 February 2010; 16:22 GMT)
  6. The Plant List search for Tripsacum
  7. Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map, Tripsacum dactyloides
  8. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Tripsacum lanceolatum


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