Thatching Grasses

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

formerly included

see Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia