Eriochloa

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass. They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia.


 * Species
 * Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from CA to MD + FL), northern Argentina
 * Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, CA, MS)
 * Eriochloa australiensis - Australia
 * Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
 * Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela
 * Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from CA to FL to MN), Ontario
 * Eriochloa crebra - Australia
 * Eriochloa distachya - Central + South America
 * Eriochloa fatmensis – tropical cupgrass - sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula
 * Eriochloa grandiflora - Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Paraguay, Misiones in Argentina, Minas Gerais in Brazil
 * Eriochloa lemmonii – canyon cupgrass - USA (AZ, NM), northern + central Mexico
 * Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
 * Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar, Yemen
 * Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (AL FL GA SC)
 * Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
 * Eriochloa nana - Argentina (Formosa, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero)
 * Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
 * Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
 * Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
 * Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
 * Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
 * Eriochloa procera - Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
 * Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha - Australia
 * Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (TX LA GA MD)
 * Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
 * Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (TX OK KS), Coahuila, Tamaulipas
 * Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
 * Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
 * Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
 * Eriochloa subulifera - Aldabra, Madagascar
 * Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
 * Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
 * Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl Ryukyu Is
 * Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador

see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa • Eriochloa acrotricha - Panicum acrotrichum
 * formerly included

• Eriochloa bolbodes - Urochloa oligotricha

• Eriochloa brasiliensis - Axonopus brasiliensis

• Eriochloa castanea - Paspalum macranthecium

• Eriochloa globosa - Isachne globosa

• Eriochloa japonica - Isachne globosa

• Eriochloa maidenii - Ancistrachne maidenii

• Eriochloa pulchella - Panicum pulchellum

• Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 - Brachiaria serrata

• Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. 1841 - Panicum gossypinum

• Eriochloa trichopus - Urochloa trichopus

• Eriochloa vestita - Tricholaena vestita