Hackelochloa is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.[2][3]
| Hackelochloa | |
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| Hackelochloa sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Subtribe: | Rottboelliinae |
| Genus: | Hackelochloa Kuntze |
| Type species | |
| Hackelochloa granularis | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891.[4]
Species edit
- Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze - sub-Saharan Africa; southern Asia from Yemen to Japan to Indonesia; Papuasia, Micronesia; naturalized in Western Hemisphere from Maryland to Paraguay
- Hackelochloa porifera (Hack.) D. Rhind. - Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Vietnam
References edit
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 646 球穗草属 qiu sui cao shu Hackelochloa Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 776. 1891.
- ^ Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 776 in German
- ^ The Plant List search for Hackelochloa
External links edit
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