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.

1. Hyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province
2. Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola
3. Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia
4. Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi
5. Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia
6. Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa
7. Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi
8. Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)
9. Hyparrhenia claytonii - Ethiopia
10. Hyparrhenia coleotricha - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
11. Hyparrhenia collina - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
12. Hyparrhenia confinis - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia
13. Hyparrhenia coriacea - Central African Rep
14. Hyparrhenia cyanescens from Gambia to Zaïre
15. Hyparrhenia cymbaria - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India
16. Hyparrhenia dichroa - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal
17. Hyparrhenia diplandra - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi
18. Hyparrhenia dregeana - from Yemen + Eritrea to Swaziland
19. Hyparrhenia dybowskii - Zaïre, Central African Rep
20. Hyparrhenia exarmata - from Mali to Kenya
21. Hyparrhenia familiaris - from Guinea to Angola
22. Hyparrhenia figariana - from Nigeria to Tanzania
23. Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
24. Hyparrhenia finitima - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga
25. Hyparrhenia formosa - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi
26. Hyparrhenia gazensis - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal
27. Hyparrhenia glabriuscula - tropical Africa
28. Hyparrhenia gossweileri - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
29. Hyparrhenia griffithii - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Vietnam
30. Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America
31. Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep
32. Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique
33. Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi
34. Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan
35. Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia
36. Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa (from Guinea to Swaziland), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
37. Hyparrhenia niariensis - from Cameroon to Zambia
38. Hyparrhenia nyassae - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam
39. Hyparrhenia papillipes - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar
40. Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
41. Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep
42. Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
43. Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi
44. Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal
45. Hyparrhenia rudis - tropical Africa, Madagascar
46. 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
47. Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar
48. Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep
49. Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe
50. Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho
51. Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia
52. Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros
53. Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar
54. Hyparrhenia violascens - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon
55. Hyparrhenia welwitschii - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros
56. Hyparrhenia wombaliensis - Cameroon, Congo Rep, Zaïre

see Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia