Echinopogon

Hedgehog grasses
Echinopogon caespitosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Echinopogon
P.Beauv.
Type species
Agrostis ovata
(syn of Echinopogon ovatus)
G.Forst.[1]
Synonyms[2]

Hystericina Steud.

Echinopogon is a genus of grasses native to Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Zealand.[1][3] They are known commonly as hedgehog grasses.[4]

They are perennial grasses with bristly panicles.[5]

Species[2]
  1. Echinopogon caespitosus - bushy hedgehog grass, tufted hedgehog grass - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
  2. Echinopogon cheelii - longflower hedgehog grass - New South Wales, Victoria
  3. Echinopogon intermedius - erect hedgehog grass - Queensland, New South Wales
  4. Echinopogon mckiei - New South Wales
  5. Echinopogon nutans - Queensland, New South Wales, New Guinea
  6. Echinopogon ovatus - forest hedgehog grass - New Guinea, Australia (all 6 states plus Norfolk Island), Lesser Sunda Islands, New Zealand (North + South + Chatham Islands)
  7. Echinopogon phleoides - Northern Tablelands of New South Wales
formerly included[2]

see Calamagrostis

References

  1. 1 2 Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie page 42 description in Latin, commentary in French
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate IX (9), figure V (5) line drawing of Echinopogon ovatus; figure captions in French on caption page 7
  4. ↑ Atlas of Living Australia, Echinopogon P.Beauv. Hedgehog Grasses
  5. ↑ Echinopogon. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.

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