Coelorachis

Coelorachis is a genus of plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.[3][4]

Coelorachis
Coelorachis cylindrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
(unranked):
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Poaceae
Genus:
Coelorachis

Type species
Coelorachis muricata
Synonyms[2]
  • Rottboellia subg. Coelorhachis (Brongn.) Hack.

Coelorhachis is treated by some sources as part of the genus Mnesithea, so the following species can generally be found under that name in those listings.[5][6]

Species[7][8][9]
  • Coelorachis afraurita (Stapf) Stapf - tropical Africa
  • Coelorachis aurita (Steud.) A.Camus - tropical America from Chiapas + Trinidad to Paraguay
  • Coelorachis balansae (Hack.) A.Camus - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
  • Coelorachis cancellata (Ridl.) Bor - Bangka, Pen Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Coelorachis capensis Stapf - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Coelorachis clarkei (Hack.) Blatt. & McCann - India, Myanmar
  • Coelorachis cylindrica (Michx.) Nash - southeastern + south-central USA
  • Coelorachis geminata (Hack.) Clayton - Pen Malaysia, Thailand, Kalimantan
  • Coelorachis glandulosa (Trin.) Stapf ex Ridl. - Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
  • Coelorachis helferi (Hook.f.) Henrard - Pen Malaysia, Indochina
  • Coelorachis impressa (Griseb.) Nash - Cuba
  • Coelorachis khasiana (Hack.) Stapf ex Bor - Yunnan, Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
  • Coelorachis lepidura Stapf - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  • Coelorachis parodiana Henrard - Paraguay, Argentina
  • Coelorachis ramosa (E.Fourn.) Nash - tropical America from Veracruz to southern Brazil
  • Coelorachis rottboellioides (R.Br.) A.Camus - Australia, New Guinea, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands
  • Coelorachis rugosa (Nutt.) Nash - Cuba; USA from Texas to New Jersey
  • Coelorachis selloana (Hack.) A.Camus - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
  • Coelorachis striata (Steud.) A.Camus - Yunnan, Indochina, eastern Himalayas
  • Coelorachis tessellata (Steud.) Nash - USA (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi)
  • Coelorachis tuberculosa (Nash) Nash - Cuba; USA (Alabama, Florida, Georgia)
formerly included[7]

see Eremochloa Hemarthria Lasiurus Mnesithea Phacelurus Rhytachne Rottboellia

  • Coelorachis fasciculata - Phacelurus huillensis
  • Coelorachis forsteriana - Rottboellia coelorachis
  • Coelorachis hirsuta - Lasiurus scindicus
  • Coelorachis laevispica - Rottboellia laevispica
  • Coelorachis loricata - Rhytachne rottboellioides
  • Coelorachis mollicoma - Mnesithea mollicoma
  • Coelorachis muricata - Eremochloa muricata
  • Coelorachis pratensis - Hemarthria pratensis
  • Coelorachis undulatifolia - Phacelurus huillensis

References
  1. lectotype designated by Koning & Sosef, Blumea 31: 293 (1986)
  2. Tropicos, Coelorachis Brongn.
  3. Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore. 1831. Voyage Autour du Monde 2(2): 64, f. 14
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 642 毛俭草属 mao jian cao shu Mnesithea Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 153. 1829.
  6. Atlas of Living Australia, Mnesithea Kunth, Jointtail Grass
  7. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  8. The Plant List search for Coelorachis
  9. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps


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