''Tristachya'' (common name trident grasses) is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
n and
Latin America
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n plants in tribe
Tristachyideae
Tristachyideae is a tribe of the Panicoideae subfamily in the grasses (Poaceae), native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in ...
within the
grass family
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in ...
.
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; formerly included[
see '']Danthoniopsis
''Danthoniopsis'' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.
; Species
* '' Danthoniopsis acutigluma'' Chippind. - Zaïre, Zambia
* '' Danthoniopsis aptera'' R.I.S.Correia & Phipps - Angola
* '' Danthoniopsis barbata'' (Nees) C ...
Dilophotriche
''Dilophotriche'' is a genus of West African plants in the grass family.
; Species
* ''Dilophotriche occidentalis'' Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea
* ''Dilophotriche pobeguinii'' Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Burkina Faso
* ''Dilophotriche ...
Loudetia
''Loudetia'' is a genus of African, Arabian, and South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can ...
Loudetiopsis
''Loudetiopsis'' is a genus of African and South American plants in the grass family.Jacques-Félix, Henri. 1960. Journal d'Agriculture Tropicale et de Botanique Appliquée 7: 408Conert, Hans Joachim. 1957. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systemati ...
Trichopteryx Zonotriche''
References
External links
Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Panicoideae
Poaceae genera
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