Eriochloa

Eriochloa
Eriochloa polystachya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:	Panicodae
Tribe:	Paniceae
Subtribe:	Melinidinae
Genus:	Eriochloa Kunth
Type species
Eriochloa distachya Kunth [1] [2]
Synonyms [3]
HelopusTrin. OedipachneLink AglyciaWilld. ex Steud. AlyciaWilld. ex Steud.

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants ^{[4] [5]} in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass.^{[ citation needed ]} They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia. ^{[2] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Species ^{[3] [11]}

• Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from CA to MD + FL), northern Argentina
• Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, CA, MS)
• Eriochloa australiensis - Australia
• Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
• Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela
• Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from CA to FL to MN), Ontario
• Eriochloa crebra - Australia
• Eriochloa distachya - Central + South America
• Eriochloa fatmensis – tropical cupgrass - sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula
• Eriochloa grandiflora - Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Paraguay, Misiones in Argentina, Minas Gerais in Brazil
• Eriochloa lemmonii – canyon cupgrass - USA (AZ, NM), northern + central Mexico
• Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
• Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar, Yemen
• Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (AL FL GA SC)
• Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
• Eriochloa nana - Argentina (Formosa, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero)
• Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
• Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
• Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
• Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
• Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
• Eriochloa procera - Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
• Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha - Australia
• Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (TX LA GA MD)
• Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
• Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (TX OK KS), Coahuila, Tamaulipas
• Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
• Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
• Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
• Eriochloa subulifera - Aldabra, Madagascar
• Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
• Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
• Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl Ryukyu Is
• Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador

formerly included ^[3]

see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa

• Eriochloa acrotricha - Panicum acrotrichum
• Eriochloa bolbodes - Urochloa oligotricha
• Eriochloa brasiliensis - Axonopus brasiliensis
• Eriochloa castanea - Paspalum macranthecium
• Eriochloa globosa - Isachne globosa
• Eriochloa japonica - Isachne globosa
• Eriochloa maidenii - Ancistrachne maidenii
• Eriochloa pulchella - Panicum pulchellum
• Eriochloa purpurascensHochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 - Brachiaria serrata
• Eriochloa purpurascensHochst. 1841 - Panicum gossypinum
• Eriochloa trichopus - Urochloa trichopus
• Eriochloa vestita - Tricholaena vestita

References

1. lectotype designated by G.V. Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 157 (18 Sep 1912)
2. Tropicos, Eriochloa Kunth
3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 94–95 in Latin
5. Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plates XXX-XXXI (30-31) line drawings of Eriochloa distachya and Eriochloa polystachya
6. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500, 524 野黍属 ye shu shu Eriochloa Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 94. 1816.
7. Atlas of Living Australia
8. United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database, Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Eriochloa Kunth
9. Jepson Manual Treatment
10. Grass Manual Treatment Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
11. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps