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Piptochaetium

Piptochaetium, speargrass, is a genus of New World plants in the grass family, native to North and South America. Piptochaetium is a bunchgrass genus in the Stipeae tribe.

Some of its species have been included in the genus Stipa by some authors.

Species
  1. Piptochaetium alpinum - Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul
  2. Piptochaetium angolense - Coquimbo
  3. Piptochaetium angustifolium - Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, México State
  4. Piptochaetium avenaceum — black oatgrass, blackseed needlegrass - United States ( Texas to Florida north to Massachusetts + Michigan), Ontario, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León
  5. Piptochaetium avenacioides - Florida speargrass - Florida
  6. Piptochaetium bicolor - Rio Grande do Sul, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile incl Juan Fernández Islands
  7. Piptochaetium brachyspermum - Buenos Aires
  8. Piptochaetium brevicalyx - central + eastern Mexico
  9. Piptochaetium burkartianum - Corrientes
  10. Piptochaetium cabrerae - Buenos Aires
  11. Piptochaetium calvescens - Buenos Aires, Uruguay
  12. Piptochaetium confusum - Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul, Entre Rios
  13. Piptochaetium cucullatum - Uruguay
  14. Piptochaetium featherstonei - Peru, Bolivia
  15. Piptochaetium fimbriatum - pinyon ricegrass - Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Guatemala
  16. Piptochaetium hackelii - Argentina, Uruguay
  17. Piptochaetium hirtum - Chile
  18. Piptochaetium indutum - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Salta, Jujuy
  19. Piptochaetium jubatum - Uruguay
  20. Piptochaetium lasianthum - Uruguay, Argentina, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul
  21. Piptochaetium leiopodum - Buenos Aires, Uruguay
  22. Piptochaetium medium - Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela
  23. Piptochaetium montevidense - Uruguayan ricegrass - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela
  24. Piptochaetium napostaense - Argentina
  25. Piptochaetium palustre - Santa Catarina
  26. Piptochaetium panicoides - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela
  27. Piptochaetium pringlei - Pringle's speargrass - Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico
  28. Piptochaetium ruprechtianum - Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil
  29. Piptochaetium sagasteguii - Peru
  30. Piptochaetium seleri - Mexico, Guatemala
  31. Piptochaetium setosum - bristly speargrass - Chile
  32. Piptochaetium stipoides - purple speargrass - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia; naturalized in Mexico, California
  33. Piptochaetium tovarii - Peru
  34. Piptochaetium uruguense - Argentina, Uruguay, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraguay, San Luis Potosí
  35. Piptochaetium virescens - Mexico, Guatemala
formerly included

see Nassella Stipa