Eriochloa

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title: "Eriochloa" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["panicoideae", "poaceae-genera"] description: "Genus of grasses" topic_path: "general/panicoideae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriochloa" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of grasses ::

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• Helopus Trin.
• Oedipachne Link
• Aglycia Willd. ex Steud.
• Alycia Willd. ex Steud.

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass. They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia.

; Species

• Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from CA to MD + FL), northern Argentina
• Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, CA, MS)
• Eriochloa australiensis - Australia
• Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
• Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela
• Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from CA to FL to MN), Ontario
• Eriochloa crebra - Australia
• Eriochloa distachya - Central + South America
• Eriochloa fatmensis – tropical cupgrass - sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula
• Eriochloa grandiflora - Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Paraguay, Misiones in Argentina, Minas Gerais in Brazil
• Eriochloa lemmonii – canyon cupgrass - USA (AZ, NM), northern + central Mexico
• Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
• Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar, Yemen
• Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (AL FL GA SC)
• Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
• Eriochloa nana - Argentina (Formosa, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero)
• Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
• Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
• Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
• Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
• Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
• Eriochloa procera - Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
• Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha - Australia
• Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (TX LA GA MD)
• Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
• Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (TX OK KS), Coahuila, Tamaulipas
• Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
• Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
• Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
• Eriochloa subulifera - Aldabra, Madagascar
• Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
• Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
• Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl Ryukyu Is
• Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador

; formerly included see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa

• Eriochloa acrotricha - Panicum acrotrichum
• Eriochloa bolbodes - Urochloa oligotricha
• Eriochloa brasiliensis - Axonopus brasiliensis
• Eriochloa castanea - Paspalum macranthecium
• Eriochloa globosa - Isachne globosa
• Eriochloa japonica - Isachne globosa
• Eriochloa maidenii - Ancistrachne maidenii
• Eriochloa pulchella - Panicum pulchellum
• Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 - Brachiaria serrata
• Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. 1841 - Panicum gossypinum
• Eriochloa trichopus - Urochloa trichopus
• Eriochloa vestita - Tricholaena vestita

References

References

1. lectotype designated by G.V. Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 157 (18 Sep 1912)
2. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4591#page/157/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. ''Nova Genera et Species Plantarum'' (quarto ed.) 1: 94–95] in Latin
3. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4591#page/470/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1815. ''Nova Genera et Species Plantarum'' (quarto ed.) 1: plates XXX-XXXI (30-31)] line drawings of ''Eriochloa distachya'' and ''Eriochloa polystachya''
4. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005209 Tropicos, ''Eriochloa'' Kunth ]
5. [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112027 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500, 524 野黍属 ye shu shu ''Eriochloa'' Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 94. 1816. ]
6. [http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Eriochloa Atlas of Living Australia]
7. [https://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=ERIOC2&display=31 United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database, Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus ''Eriochloa'' Kunth]
8. [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9008 Jepson Manual Treatment]
9. link. (2011-06-11)
10. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451489 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
11. [http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Eriochloa Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]

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