Microstegium

Microstegium
Microstegium vimineum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Genus: Microstegium
Nees 1836 not Lindb. 1865 (moss in Funariaceae)
Type species
Microstegium willdenowianum
(syn of M. vimineum)[1]
Nees ex Steud.[1]
Synonyms[1][2]

Microstegium is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the sorghum tribe within the grass family.[4][5] Browntop is a common name.[6]

Species[2]
  1. Microstegium batangense - Sichuan
  2. Microstegium biaristatum - East + Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea
  3. Microstegium borianum - Meghalaya
  4. Microstegium brandisii - Taiwan, Myanmar, Java, Bali, Flores, Sulawesi
  5. Microstegium butuoense - Sichuan
  6. Microstegium delicatulum - Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
  7. Microstegium dispar - Java, Bali, Flores
  8. Microstegium eucnemis - India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
  9. Microstegium falconeri - Himalayas
  10. Microstegium fasciculatum - China, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, tropical Africa
  11. Microstegium fauriei - Taiwan
  12. Microstegium geniculatum - China, Southeast Asia
  13. Microstegium glabratum - Philippines, Indonesia, Hainan, Papuasia, Micronesia, Ryukyu Islands, Society Islands
  14. Microstegium japonicum - China, Japan, Korea
  15. Microstegium lanceolatum - Yunnan
  16. Microstegium monoracemum - Guangdong
  17. Microstegium nudum - China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, tropical + southern Africa
  18. Microstegium petiolare - Yunnan, Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand
  19. Microstegium rufispicum - Java
  20. Microstegium somae - Anhui, Fujian, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan
  21. Microstegium spectabile - Papuasia, Southeast Asia, Hainan, Taiwan, Hong Kong
  22. Microstegium stapfii - Myanmar
  23. Microstegium steenisii - Java
  24. Microstegium tenue - Taiwan, Luzon, Kosrae
  25. Microstegium vimineum - Primorye, China, Japan, Korea, Himalayas, Southeast Asia; invasive in North America and in parts of Africa
formerly included[2]

see Ischaemum Schizachyrium

  • Microstegium pseudeulalia - Schizachyrium pseudeulalia
  • Microstegium rupestre - Ischaemum polystachyum

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tropicos, Microstegium Nees
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ The International Plant Names Index
  4. ↑ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel in Lindley, John. 1836. Natural System of Botany 447.
  5. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 593 莠竹属 you zhu shu Microstegium Nees in Lindley
  6. ↑ "Microstegium". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 9 July 2015.


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