Lachnagrostis Explained

Lachnagrostis is a genus of African, Australian, Pacific Island, and South American plants in the grass family.^[1] They are often treated as members of genus Agrostis.

Species^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Lachnagrostis adamsonii - Victoria
• Lachnagrostis aemula - Australia incl Lord Howe I
• Lachnagrostis ammobia - New Zealand (South)
• Lachnagrostis barbuligera - South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
• Lachnagrostis batesii - South Australia
• Lachnagrostis billardierei - Australia, New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham Is)
• Lachnagrostis × contracta - Victoria (L. adamsonii × L. deflexa)
  • Lachnagrostis deflexa - Victoria Lachnagrostis drummondiana - Western Australia
• Lachnagrostis elata - New Zealand (North+ South)
• Lachnagrostis filiformis - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is, New Zealand (North+ South + Antipodes+ Chatham + Kermadec Is), Easter I; naturalized in South Africa, Taiwan, scattered locales in the Americas
• Lachnagrostis glabra - New Zealand (North)
• Lachnagrostis lachnantha - Yemen, eastern + southern Africa from Eritrea to Cape Province
• Lachnagrostis lacunarum - Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis leptostachys - New Zealand (Antipodes)
• Lachnagrostis leviseta - Victoria
• Lachnagrostis limitanea - South Australia
• Lachnagrostis littoralis - New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham + Kermadec Is)
• Lachnagrostis lyallii - New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham Is)
• Lachnagrostis meionectes- Victoria, New South Wales
• Lachnagrostis morrisii - Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis nesomytica - Western Australia
• Lachnagrostis palustris - South Australia, Victoria
• Lachnagrostis perennis - South Australia
• Lachnagrostis pilosa - New Zealand (North+ South+ Antipodes + Chatham Is)
• Lachnagrostis plebeia - Western Australia, South Australia
• Lachnagrostis preissii - Western Australia
• Lachnagrostis rudis - South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis schlechteri - Cape Province of South Africa
• Lachnagrostis sodiroana - Ecuador, Peru
• Lachnagrostis striata - New Zealand (North + South)
• Lachnagrostis tenuis - New Zealand (South)
• Lachnagrostis uda - New Zealand (South)

formerly includedsee Agrostis Calamagrostis Gastridium Triplachne

References

1. Web site: The genus Lachnagrostis (Gramineae) in Australia . 2011-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110329184626/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/72810/Tel9Jac439.pdf . 2011-03-29 . dead .
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=421854 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Edgar, E. 1995. New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P. Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Gramineae: Aveneae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 1–33
4. Rúgolo de Agrasar, Z. & A. M. Molina. 2002. El género Lachnagrostis (Gramineae: Agrostideae) en América del Sur. 20–32. In La Botánica en el Nuevo Milenio: Memorias del Tercer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Botánica. FUNBOTANICA, Quito