Echinopogon Explained

Echinopogon is a genus of grasses native to Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Zealand.^[1] They are known commonly as hedgehog grasses.^[2]

They are perennial grasses with bristly panicles.^[3]

Species^[4]

• Echinopogon caespitosus - bushy hedgehog grass, tufted hedgehog grass - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
• Echinopogon cheelii - longflower hedgehog grass - New South Wales, Victoria
• Echinopogon intermedius - erect hedgehog grass - Queensland, New South Wales
• Echinopogon mckiei - New South Wales
• Echinopogon nutans - Queensland, New South Wales, New Guinea
• Echinopogon ovatus - forest hedgehog grass - New Guinea, Australia (all 6 states plus Norfolk Island), Lesser Sunda Islands, New Zealand (North + South + Chatham Islands)
• Echinopogon phleoides - Northern Tablelands of New South Wales

formerly included^[4] see Calamagrostis

• Echinopogon gunnianus - Calamagrostis gunniana

External links

• Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394121#page/294/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate IX (9), figure V (5)
2. Web site: Atlas of Living Australia, Echinopogon P.Beauv. Hedgehog Grasses . 2015-03-30 . 2015-04-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402222058/http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:382585 . dead .
3. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Echinopogon Echinopogon.
4. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=410416 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families