| Echinolaena | |
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| Echinolaena inflexa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Paspaleae |
| Subtribe: | Paspalinae |
| Genus: | Echinolaena Desv. |
| Type species | |
| Echinolaena hirta (syn. of E. inflexa) | |
| Synonyms [1] [2] | |
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Echinolaena is a genus of plants in tribe Paspaleae of the grass family, native to the New World tropics. [3] [4] It includes only two species after the referral of former members to the related genera Ichnanthus , Oedochloa and the more distant Chasechloa (tribe Paniceae) in a 2015 revision. [4]
- Species [4] [1]
- Echinolaena gracilis - from Yucatán to Bolivia
- Echinolaena inflexa - Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Goiás, D.F., São Paulo, Maranhão
- formerly included
- E. boiviniana - Chasechloa egregia
- E. brachystachya - Panicum brachystachyum
- E. ecuadoriana - Oedochloa ecuadoriana
- E. loliacea - Ichnanthus hirtus
- E. madagascariensis - Chasechloa madagascariensis
- E. minarum - Oedochloa minarum
- E. navicularis - Ichnanthus glaber
- E. nemorosa - Ichnanthus nemorosus
- E. oplismenoides - Ichnanthus oplismenoides
- E. polystachya - Pseudechinolaena polystachya
- E. procurrens - Ichnanthus procurrens
- E. standelyi - Oedochloa standelyi
- E. trinii - Pseudechinolaena polystachya
