Leersia

Leersia is a genus of plants in the grass family which includes species known generally as cutgrasses.[2][3]

cutgrasses
Leersia hexandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Oryzoideae
Tribe: Oryzeae
Subtribe: Oryzinae
Genus: Leersia
Sw. 1788 not Hedw. ex Batsch 1802 (moss in family Encalyptaceae)
Type species
Leersia oryzoides
Synonyms[1]
  • Homalocenchrus Mieg
  • Ehrhartia Weber
  • Asprella Schreb.
  • Aplexia Raf.
  • Endodia Raf.
  • Blepharochloa Endl.
  • Pseudoryza Griff.

The genus is widespread across many countries on all the inhabited continents.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

It was named for the German botanist Johann Daniel Leers (1727-1774).[12]

Species[1]
  • Leersia angustifolia Prodoehl - Sudan
  • Leersia denudata Launert - from Kenya to Cape Province
  • Leersia drepanothrix Stapf - from Guinea to Uganda
  • Leersia friesii Melderis - from Uganda to Botswana
  • Leersia hexandra Sw. - Africa, Eurasia, Australian, North + South America, various islands
  • Leersia japonica (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
  • Leersia lenticularis Michx. - central + eastern USA
  • Leersia ligularis Trin. - Latin America + West Indies from Coahuila to Paraguay
  • Leersia monandra Sw. - Texas, Florida, Mexico, West Indies
  • Leersia nematostachya Launert - Cameroon, Angola, Zambia
  • Leersia oncothrix C.E.Hubb. - Zambia
  • Leersia oryzoides (L.) Sw. - Eurasia (from Azores to Primorye), North America (Canada, USA, northeastern Mexico)
  • Leersia perrieri (A.Camus) Launert - Madagascar
  • Leersia sayanuka Ohwi - China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
  • Leersia stipitata Bor - Thailand
  • Leersia tisserantii (A.Chev.) Launert - from Guinea to Namibia
  • Leersia triandra C.E.Hubb. - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cameroon
  • Leersia virginica Willd. - eastern Canada, eastern + central USA
formerly included[1]

see Arthraxon Digitaria Hygroryza Maltebrunia Megastachya

  • Leersia aristata - Hygroryza aristata
  • Leersia digitaria - Digitaria ciliaris
  • Leersia disticha - Megastachya mucronata
  • Leersia hispida - Arthraxon hispidus
  • Leersia latifolia - Maltebrunia leersioides

References

Media related to Leersia at Wikimedia Commons


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