Tripsacum

Genus of grasses From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tripsacum (adjective: tripsacoid} is a genus of plants in the grass family and native to the Western Hemisphere.[3] Gamagrass is a common name for plants in this genus.[4]

Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Clade:Commelinids
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Tripsacum
Tripsacum grass
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Tripsacinae
Genus: Tripsacum
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Type species
Tripsacum dactyloides
Synonyms[2]
  • Digitaria Adans. 1763, illegitimate homonym not Heist. ex Fabr. 1759
  • Dactylodes Zanoni-Monti ex Kuntze
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Species

References:[2][5][6]

  • Tripsacum andersonii - from Veracruz to Bolivia
  • Tripsacum australe - South America
  • Tripsacum cundinamarce - Colombia
  • Tripsacum dactyloides - widespread in Latin America, West Indies, eastern USA[7]
  • Tripsacum intermedium - Guerrero, Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras
  • Tripsacum jalapense - Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador
  • Tripsacum lanceolatum - USA (AZ NM),[8] Mexico, Central America
  • Tripsacum latifolium - Mesoamerica, West Indies
  • Tripsacum laxum - Latin America, West Indies
  • Tripsacum maizar - Mexico, Guatemala
  • Tripsacum manisuroides - Chiapas
  • Tripsacum peruvianum - Peru, Ecuador
  • Tripsacum pilosum - Peru, Ecuador
  • Tripsacum zopilotense - Mexico, Guatemala

Formerly included

Reference:[2]

See Anthephora; Apluda; Chionachne; Coelorachis; Elionurus; Hackelochloa; Hemarthria; Ischaemum; Lasiurus; Manisuris; Microstegium; Pogonatherum

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