Eriochloa Explained

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants^{[1] [2]} 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.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Species^{[9] [10]}

• 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, Eswatini, 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, Eswatini, 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^[9] see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4591#page/157/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 94–95
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4591#page/470/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plates XXX-XXXI (30-31)
3. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005209 Tropicos, Eriochloa Kunth
4. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112027 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500, 524 野黍属 ye shu shu Eriochloa Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 94. 1816.
5. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Eriochloa Atlas of Living Australia
6. http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=ERIOC2&display=31 United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database, Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Eriochloa Kunth
7. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9008 Jepson Manual Treatment
8. http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Eriochloa&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment
9. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451489 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
10. http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Eriochloa Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps