Hyparrhenia

Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses. Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.

They are mostly native to tropical Africa; some can be found in warmer areas in temperate Eurasia, Australia, and Latin America. These are annual and perennial bunch grasses. The inflorescence branches into twin spikes of paired spikelets.


 * Species
 * Hyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province
 * Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola
 * Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia
 * Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi
 * Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia
 * Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa
 * Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi
 * Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)
 * Hyparrhenia claytonii - Ethiopia
 * Hyparrhenia coleotricha - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
 * Hyparrhenia collina - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
 * Hyparrhenia confinis - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia
 * Hyparrhenia coriacea - Central African Rep
 * Hyparrhenia cyanescens from Gambia to Zaïre
 * Hyparrhenia cymbaria - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India
 * Hyparrhenia dichroa - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal
 * Hyparrhenia diplandra - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi
 * Hyparrhenia dregeana - from Yemen and Eritrea to Eswatini
 * Hyparrhenia dybowskii - Zaïre, Central African Rep
 * Hyparrhenia exarmata - from Mali to Kenya
 * Hyparrhenia familiaris - from Guinea to Angola
 * Hyparrhenia figariana - from Nigeria to Tanzania
 * Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
 * Hyparrhenia finitima - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga
 * Hyparrhenia formosa - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi
 * Hyparrhenia gazensis - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal
 * Hyparrhenia glabriuscula - tropical Africa
 * Hyparrhenia gossweileri - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
 * Hyparrhenia griffithii - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Vietnam
 * Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America
 * Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep
 * Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique
 * Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi
 * Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan
 * Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia
 * Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa (from Guinea to Eswatini), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
 * Hyparrhenia niariensis - from Cameroon to Zambia
 * Hyparrhenia nyassae - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam
 * Hyparrhenia papillipes - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar
 * Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
 * Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep
 * Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
 * Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi
 * Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal
 * Hyparrhenia rudis - tropical Africa, Madagascar
 * Hyparrhenia rufa - tropical - southern Africa; Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Florida, Texas, Latin America (from Chihuahua to Paraguay); various islands in Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean
 * Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar
 * Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep
 * Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe
 * Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho
 * Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia
 * Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros
 * Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar
 * Hyparrhenia violascens - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon
 * Hyparrhenia welwitschii - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros
 * Hyparrhenia wombaliensis - Cameroon, Congo Rep, Zaïre

see Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia • Hyparrhenia abyssinica - Exotheca abyssinica
 * formerly included

• Hyparrhenia archaelymandra - Elymandra archaelymandra

• Hyparrhenia baddadae - Elymandra grallata

• Hyparrhenia cornucopiae - Hyperthelia cornucopiae

• Hyparrhenia dissoluta - Hyperthelia dissoluta

• Hyparrhenia djalonica - Parahyparrhenia annua

• Hyparrhenia edulis - Hyperthelia edulis

• Hyparrhenia eylesii - Elymandra grallata

• Hyparrhenia grallata - Elymandra grallata

• Hyparrhenia jaegeriana - Parahyparrhenia annua

• Hyparrhenia lithophila - Elymandra lithophila

• Hyparrhenia macrolepis - Hyperthelia dissoluta

• Hyparrhenia monathera - Exotheca abyssinica

• Hyparrhenia pusilla - Andropogon pusillus

• Hyparrhenia sulcata - Parahyparrhenia annua