Eustachys

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Eustachys
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Eustachys petraea
Midway Atoll, Pacific Ocean
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Eleusininae
Genus: Eustachys
Desv. 1810 [1] not Salisb. 1866 (syn of Ornithogalum )
Type species
Eustachys petraea
Synonyms [2]
  • ChloroidesFisch. ex Regel
  • SchultesiaSpreng.

Eustachys (fan grass or fingergrass) is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family. It is native primarily to warmer parts of the Americas, with a few species in Africa and Asia. [3] [4] [5]

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Species

Species include: [2] [6] [7] [8]

Open florets on the extended (green) rachilla of an E. paspaloides spikelet, showing the white anthers below, and feathery stigmas above. Eustachys paspaloides, blomme, Skeerpoort.jpg
Open florets on the extended (green) rachilla of an E. paspaloides spikelet, showing the white anthers below, and feathery stigmas above.

Former species

Some species formerly under Eustachys are under the genera Chloris or Ornithogalum , they include: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2  The Genus Eustachys was first named and described in "Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique de Paris 2: 188. 1810". "Plant Name Details for Poaceae Eustachys' Desv". IPNI . Retrieved May 2, 2011. Type Information: Type Name: E. petraea (Sw.) Desv. ('petraeus') (Chloris petraea Sw.
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update. Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Molina, A. M. 1996. Revisión taxonómica del género Eustachys Desv. (Poaceae: Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae) de Sudamérica. Candollea 51(1): 225–272
  6. The Plant List search for Eustachys
  7. Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744. In P. M. Jørgensen, M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck (eds.) Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis
  8. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps