Tristachya

Trident grasses
Tristachya leucothrix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Tristachyideae
Genus: Tristachya
Nees
Type species
Tristachya leiostachya
Synonyms[3]
  • Apochaete (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps
  • Dolichochaete (C.E.Hubb.) J.B.Phipps
  • Isalus J.B.Phipps
  • Loudetia Hochst. ex A.Braun, rejected name
  • Monopogon J.Presl
  • Muantijamvella J.B.Phipps
  • Veseyochloa J.B.Phipps

Tristachya (common name trident grasses) is a genus of African and Latin American plants in tribe Tristachyideae within the grass family.[2][4][5]

Species[3][6]
formerly included[3]

see Danthoniopsis Dilophotriche Loudetia Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Zonotriche

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Swallen, N. Amer. Fl 17(8): 578 (14 Jul 1939)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Tristachya Nees
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Hoare, D. B. "Tristachya leucothrix Nees". FAO. CIAT/FAO collaboration on Tropical Forages. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  5. ^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 458
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Tristachya