Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses.[3][4] Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.[5][6][7][8]
They are mostly native to tropical Africa; some can be found in warmer areas in temperate Eurasia, Australia, and Latin America. These are annual and perennial bunch grasses. The inflorescence branches into twin spikes of paired spikelets.[9][10][11]
Species[2]
Hyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province
Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola
Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia
Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi
Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia
Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa
Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi
Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)
Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America
Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep
Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique
Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi
Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan
Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia
Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa (from Guinea to Eswatini), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep
Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi
Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal
Hyparrhenia rudis - tropical Africa, Madagascar
Hyparrhenia rufa - tropical - southern Africa; Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Florida, Texas, Latin America (from Chihuahua to Paraguay); various islands in Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean
Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar
Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep
Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe
Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho
Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia
Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros
Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar
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^Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 631 苞茅属 bao mao shu Hyparrhenia Andersson ex Fournier, Mexic. Pl. 2: 51, 67. 1886.
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^Pohl, R. W. 1994. 164. Hyparrhenia Andersson ex Fourn. 6: 393–394. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
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