What is "eriochloa"

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

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

see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa