Hackelochloa Explained

Hackelochloa is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.^{[1] [2]}

The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891.^[3]

Species

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• Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze - sub-Saharan Africa; southern Asia from Yemen to Japan to Indonesia; Papuasia, Micronesia; naturalized in Western Hemisphere from Maryland to Paraguay
• Hackelochloa porifera (Hack.) D. Rhind. - Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Vietnam

External links

• line drawing of Hackelochloa porifera from Flora of China Illustrations vol. 22, fig. 901, 4-5

Notes and References

1. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00271.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=114426 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 646 球穗草属 qiu sui cao shu Hackelochloa Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 776. 1891.
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4198#page/402/mode/1up Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 776
4. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Hackelochloa The Plant List search for Hackelochloa