Dichelachne

plumegrasses
Dichelachne crinita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Dichelachne
Endl.[1]
Type species
Dichelachne montana
(syn of D. micrantha)
Endl.

Dichelachne is a genus of Australian, Indonesian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. They are known commonly as plumegrasses. [2][3][4]

Species[5][6]
  1. Dichelachne crinita - longhair plumegrass, clovenfoot plumegrass - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, New Zealand (incl Chatham Is + Kermadec Is)
  2. Dichelachne hirtella - New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia
  3. Dichelachne inaequiglumis - Australia, New Zealand
  4. Dichelachne lautumia - South I of New Zealand
  5. Dichelachne micrantha - shorthair plumegrass - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, New Zealand (North I + Kermadec Is), Rapa Iti, Easter I
  6. Dichelachne parva - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
  7. Dichelachne rara - Australia, New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is
  8. Dichelachne robusta - New South Wales, Victoria
  9. Dichelachne sieberiana - Sieber's plumegrass - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
formerly included[5]

see Anemanthele Austrostipa Calamagrostis Lachnagrostis Oryzopsis

References

  1. Endlicher, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus 1833. Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae 20-21 in Latin
  2. Dichelachne. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
  3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  4. Veldkamp, J.F. 1974. A taxonomic revision of Dichelachne Endl. (Gramineae) with some new combination in Stipa L. and Oryzopsis. Blumea 22(1): 5–12.
  5. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. The Plant List search for Dichelachne
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