Megastachya Explained

Megastachya is a genus of African plants in the grass family.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species^{[4] [5]}

• Megastachya madagascariensis (Lam.) Chase – Madagascar
• Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P.Beauv. – Madagascar, South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, etc.^{[6] [7]}

Formerly included^[4] numerous species once regarded as part of Megastachya but now considered better suited to other genera: Catapodium Desmostachya Distichlis Enteropogon Eragrostis Glyceria Halopyrum Leptochloa Poa

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394153#page/158/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 74, 167
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394153#page/300/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XV (15), figure V (5 a-c)
3. Web site: RBG Kew: GrassBase - Megastachya Description . 2023-12-20 . www.kew.org.
4. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Megastachya The Plant List search for Megastachya
5. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=423308 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
6. Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557
7. Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420