Dichanthium

Dichanthium, known commonly as bluestem or bluegrass, is a genus of African, Asian, and Australian plants in the grass family.

Some species have become naturalized in the Americas and on various oceanic islands.

Species
Species include: • Dichanthium andringitrense - Queensland

• Dichanthium annulatum - Kleberg's bluestem, marvel grass - Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Australia; naturalised in North + South America, Crete, Canary Islands, certain Pacific Islands including Hawaii

• Dichanthium aristatum - Angleton bluestem - Yunnan, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, India; ; naturalised in North + South America, Queensland, various islands in Indian Ocean, Pacific, + West Indies

• Dichanthium armatum  - Gujarat

• Dichanthium caricosum - Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Guizhou, Yunnan, Java, Malaysia

• Dichanthium concanense - Maharashtra

• Dichanthium erectum  - Lesser Sunda Islands

• Dichanthium fecundum  - New Guinea

• Dichanthium foulkesii  - Indian Subcontinent, Nicobar Islands

• Dichanthium foveolatum  - Asia + Africa from Morocco + Canary Islands to Bangladesh

• Dichanthium mccannii  - Maharashtra

• Dichanthium micranthum  - Oman

• Dichanthium mucronulatum  - Thailand, Pen Malaysia

• Dichanthium oliganthum  - Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Myanmar

• Dichanthium panchganiense  - Maharashtra

• Dichanthium pertusum  - Maharashtra, Karnataka

• Dichanthium paranjpyeanum  - Maharashtra

• Dichanthium queenslandicum  - Queensland

• Dichanthium sericeum - silky bluestem - Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Southeast Asia; naturalized in scattered locales in North America

• Dichanthium setosum - Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania

• Dichanthium tenue - slender bluestem - Queensland, New South Wales

• Dichanthium tenuiculum  - Luzon

• Dichanthium tuberculatum - Madhya Pradesh

Former species
Several species formerly included are now regarded as better suited to other genera, including in: Andropogon, Bothriochloa, Capillipedium, Euclasta, and Pseudodichanthium.