Hackelochloa

Hackelochloa
Hackelochloa sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Hackelochloa
Type species
Hackelochloa granularis
Synonyms[1]

Rytilix Raf. ex Hitchc.

Hackelochloa is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.[2][3]

The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891.[4]

Species[1][5]
  1. 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
  2. Hackelochloa porifera (Hack.) D. Rhind. - Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Vietnam

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  3. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 646 球穗草属 qiu sui cao shu Hackelochloa Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 776. 1891.
  4. ↑ Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto 1891. Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 776 in German
  5. ↑ The Plant List search for Hackelochloa


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