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Genus of grasses
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]
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Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from
CA to
MD +
FL), northern Argentina
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Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (
AZ,
CA,
MS)
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Eriochloa australiensis -
Australia
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Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
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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
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Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
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Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa,
Aldabra, Madagascar,
Yemen
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Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (
AL
FL
GA
SC)
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Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
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Eriochloa nana - Argentina (
Formosa,
Corrientes,
Santiago del Estero)
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Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
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Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl
Galápagos
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Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi,
Eswatini,
Limpopo,
Mpumalanga,
KwaZulu-Natal
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Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
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Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass -
Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
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Eriochloa procera -
Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
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Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha -
Australia
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Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (
TX
LA
GA
MD)
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Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
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Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (
TX
OK
KS),
Coahuila,
Tamaulipas
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Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
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Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini,
Limpopo,
Mpumalanga,
KwaZulu-Natal
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Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
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Eriochloa subulifera -
Aldabra, Madagascar
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Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
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Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
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Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (
Amur,
Primorye,
Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl
Ryukyu Is
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Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador
- formerly included
[3]
see
Ancistrachne
Axonopus
Brachiaria
Isachne
Panicum
Paspalum
Tricholaena
Urochloa