Ehrharta

Ehrharta is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3]

Ehrharta
Ehrharta calycina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Oryzoideae
Tribe: Ehrharteae
Genus: Ehrharta
Thunb.
Type species
Ehrharta capensis
Synonyms[1]
  • Trochera L.C.M.Richard
  • Tetrarrhena R.Br.
  • Diplax Sol. ex Benn.

Most of the species are native to Africa, with a few from Southeast Asia and from various islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The genus is also found in Australia, southern Asia, the Mediterranean, and North America. Several including Ehrharta longiflora, Ehrharta calycina and Ehrharta erecta are considered invasive weeds.[4][5][6][7]

Common names for this genus include veldtgrass.[8][9][10]

This genus was named for the German botanist Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, 1742-1795.[2][11]

Species[1][12]
  • Ehrharta acuminata (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia
  • Ehrharta barbinodis Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta brevifolia Schrad. - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta bulbosa Sm. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta calycina Sm. - Cape Province, Namibia, Free State, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Mediterranean, Australia, New Zealand, USA (California, Nevada, Texas)
  • Ehrharta capensis Thunb. - Cape Province; naturalized in India
  • Ehrharta delicatula Stapf - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta digyna Thunb. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta diplax F.Muell. - Sulawesi, New Guinea, New Zealand incl Antipodes, Fiji, Society Is
  • Ehrharta distichophylla Labill. - Australia
  • Ehrharta dura Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta eburnea Gibbs Russ. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta erecta Lam. - from Eritrea + Saudi Arabia to Cape Province; naturalized in scattered locations in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, California
  • Ehrharta festucacea Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. - Madagascar
  • Ehrharta godefroyi C.Cordem. - Réunion
  • Ehrharta juncea (R.Br.) Spreng. - Australia
  • Ehrharta laevis (R.Br.) Spreng. - Western Australia
  • Ehrharta longiflora Sm. - South Africa, Namibia; naturalized in Cape Verde, St. Helena, Canary Islands, Réunion, India, Australia, New Zealand, California
  • Ehrharta longifolia Schrad. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta longigluma C.E.Hubb. - South Africa, Lesotho
  • Ehrharta melicoides Thunb. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta microlaena Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta oreophila (D.I.Morris) L.P.M.Willemse - Tasmania
  • Ehrharta ottonis Kuntze ex Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta penicillata C.Cordem. - Réunion
  • Ehrharta pusilla Nees - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta ramosa Thunb. - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta rehmannii Stapf - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta rupestris Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta setacea Nees - Cape Province
  • Ehrharta tasmanica (Hook.f.) L.P.M.Willemse - Tasmania
  • Ehrharta thunbergii Gibbs Russ. - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta triandra Nees - Cape Province, Namibia
  • Ehrharta villosa Schult.f. - Cape Province; naturalised in Australia, New Zealand North Island, Argentina
formerly included[1]

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Brylkinia Leersia Melinis Microlaena Sporobolus Tristachya Zotovia

  • Ehrharta caudata - Brylkinia caudata
  • Ehrharta clandestina - Leersia oryzoides
  • Ehrharta colensoi - Zotovia colensoi
  • Ehrharta hispida - Tristachya leucothrix
  • Ehrharta multinoda - Microlaena polynoda
  • Ehrharta stipoides Labill. - Microlaena stipoides[13]
  • Ehrharta tenella - Sporobolus tenellus
  • Ehrharta thomsonii - Zotovia thomsonii
  • Ehrharta uniglumis Fenzl ex T.Durand & Schinz 1894 not F.Muell. 1855 - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1779. Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 40: 217, pl. 8
  3. Tropicos, Ehrharta Thunb.
  4. "Element Stewardship Abstracts, Ehrharta spp". Archived from the original on 2005-11-24. Retrieved 2006-01-05.
  5. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 181 皱稃草 zhou fu cao Ehrharta erecta Lamarck, Encycl. 2: 347. 1786.
  6. Altervista Flora Italiana genere Ehrharta
  7. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  8. Atlas of Living Australia, Ehrharta Thunb., Veldt Grasses
  9. Jepson Manual Treatment
  10. USDA Plants Profile
  11. Grass Manual Treatment Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  12. The Plant List search for Ehrharta
  13. "Microlaena stipoides (Labill.) R.Br.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-02-23
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