Tristachya

Trident grasses
Tristachya leucothrix
Scientific 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 Nees
Synonyms
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.

Species

• Tristachya angustifolia Hitchc. - Nayarit in western Mexico
• Tristachya auronitens J.Duvign. - Zaïre
• Tristachya avenacea (J.Presl) Scribn. & Merr. - Mexico, Central America
• Tristachya bequaertii De Wild. - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
• Tristachya betsileensis A.Camus - Madagascar
• Tristachya bicrinita (J.B.Phipps) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia
• Tristachya biseriata Stapf - Lesotho, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
• Tristachya contrerasii R.Guzmán - Jalisco in western Mexico
• Tristachya hubbardiana Conert - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
• Tristachya huillensis Rendle - Zaïre, Angola, Malawi, Zambia
• Tristachya humbertii A.Camus - Madagascar
• Tristachya laxa Scribn. & Merr. - Mexico (Durango, Nayarit, Sinaloa)
• Tristachya leiostachya Nees - Paraguay, Brazil
• Tristachya leucothrix Trin. ex Nees - central + southern Africa
• Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B.Phipps - central + southern Africa
• Tristachya nodiglumis K.Schum. - central + southern Africa
• Tristachya papilosa R.Guzmán - Nayarit in western Mexico
• Tristachya pedicellata Stent - Limpopo Province in South Africa
• Tristachya rehmannii Hack. - central + southern Africa
• Tristachya superba (De Not.) Schweinf. & Asch. - sub-Saharan Africa
• Tristachya thollonii Franch. - from Chad to Angola
• Tristachya viridearistata (J.B.Phipps) Clayton - Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi

formerly included

see Danthoniopsis Dilophotriche Loudetia Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Zonotriche

• Tristachya anthoxanthoides - Loudetia vanderystii
• Tristachya arundinacea - Loudetia arundinacea
• Tristachya aurea - Zonotriche inamoena
• Tristachya barbata - Danthoniopsis barbata
• Tristachya bricchettiana - Danthoniopsis barbata
• Tristachya chevalieri - Loudetiopsis chevalieri
• Tristachya chrysothrix - Loudetiopsis chrysothrix
• Tristachya coarctata - Loudetiopsis coarctata
• Tristachya decora - Zonotriche decora
• Tristachya dregeana - Trichopteryx dregeana
• Tristachya elegans - Loudetia simplex
• Tristachya esculenta - Loudetia esculenta
• Tristachya fulva - Loudetiopsis chrysothrix
• Tristachya glabrinodis - Loudetiopsis kerstingii
• Tristachya inamoena - Zonotriche inamoena
• Tristachya kagerensis - Loudetia kagerensis
• Tristachya kerstingii - Loudetiopsis kerstingii
• Tristachya microstachya - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
• Tristachya minuta - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
• Tristachya multinodis - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
• Tristachya parviflora - Loudetiopsis ambiens
• Tristachya pilgeriana - Zonotriche decora
• Tristachya purpurea - Dilophotriche purpurea
• Tristachya ringoetii - Zonotriche inamoena
• Tristachya scaettae - Loudetiopsis scaettae
• Tristachya simplex - Loudetia simplex
• Tristachya somalensis - Danthoniopsis barbata
• Tristachya stocksii - Danthoniopsis stocksii
• Tristachya tristachyoides - Dilophotriche tristachyoides
• Tristachya triticoides - Loudetia coarctata
• Tristachya tuberculata - Dilophotriche tristachyoides

External links

• Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora