''Tristachya'' (common name trident grasses) is a
genus
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of
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
n and
Latin America
Latin America or
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* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
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. There are around 70 species in eight genera. The tribe belongs to a basal lineage with ...
within the
grass family
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...
.
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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
* '' Dilopho ...
Loudetia
''Loudetia'' is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.[Loudetiopsis
''Loudetiopsis'' is a genus of African and South American plants in the Poaceae, grass family.Jacques-Félix, Henri. 1960. Journal d'Agriculture Tropicale et de Botanique Appliquée 7: 408Conert, Hans Joachim. 1957. Botanische Jahrbücher für ...]
Trichopteryx Zonotriche''
References
External links
Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Panicoideae
Poaceae genera
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