Dregeochloa | |
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Dregeochloa pumila | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Arundinoideae |
Tribe: | Arundineae |
Genus: | Dregeochloa Conert |
Dregeochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family. [1] [2]
Dregeochloa is most remarkable for the species D. pumila, the only known example of leaf succulence in the entire grass family.
Kniphofia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1794. The species are native to Africa. Common names include tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily and poker plant.
Aulonemia is a genus of bamboo in the grass family. It is native to Central America and tropical South America.
Ehrharta is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Anthoxanthum, commonly known as hornworts, vernal grasses, or vernalgrasses, is a genus of plants in the grass family. The generic name means 'Yellow flower' in Botanical Latin, referring to the colour of the mature spikelets.
Setaria is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. The name is derived from the Latin word seta, meaning "bristle" or "hair", which refers to the bristly spikelets.
Chionochloa is a genus of tussock grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in New Zealand with one known species in New Guinea and another on Lord Howe Island. Some of the species are referred to as snowgrass.
Rostraria is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Eurasia and North Africa with one species native to South America. Hairgrass is a common name.
Pseudopentameris is a genus of South African plants in the grass family, found only in Western Cape Province.
Anadelphia is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Anthephora is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to southwest Asia, Africa, the Americas, and various islands.
Cladoraphis is a genus of African plants in the grass family, native to southern Africa. Its phylogenetic position within the subfamily has not yet been resolved.
Loudetiopsis is a genus of African and South American plants in the grass family.
Styppeiochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Tristachya is a genus of African and Latin American plants in tribe Tristachyideae within the grass family.
Monocymbium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Setaria pumila is a species of grass known by many common names, including yellow foxtail, yellow bristle-grass, pigeon grass, and cattail grass. It is native to Europe, but it is known throughout the world as a common weed. It grows in lawns, sidewalks, roadsides, cultivated fields, and many other places. This annual grass grows 20 centimetres to well over 1 metre in height, its mostly hairless stems ranging from green to purple-tinged in color. The leaf blades are hairless on the upper surfaces, twisting, and up to 30 centimetres long. The inflorescence is a stiff, cylindrical bundle of spikelets 2 to 15 centimetres long with short, blunt bristles. The panicle may appear yellow or yellow-tinged.
Merxmuellera is a genus of African grasses named for Hermann Merxmueller, a 20th century German botanist and taxonomist who was an expert on African flora.
Tenaxia is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.
Geochloa is a genus of South African plants in the grass family.
Tulista pumila ("Vratjiesaalwee") is a species of Tulista succulent plant, from the Western Cape, South Africa.