Lachnagrostis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Poodae |
| Tribe: | Poeae |
| Subtribe: | Agrostidinae |
| Genus: | Lachnagrostis Trin.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lachnagrostis filiformis | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Lachnagrostis is a genus of African, Australian, Pacific Island, and South American plants in the grass family.[4] They are often treated as members of genus Agrostis.
Lachnagrostis contains 38 accepted species,[5] of which, the majority are found Australia and New Zealand. Australia is home to 21 species, and New Zealand is home to 12 species, 10 of which are endemics.[6][7]
Species
[edit]- Lachnagrostis adamsonii - Victoria
- Lachnagrostis aemula - Australia incl Lord Howe I
- Lachnagrostis ammobia - New Zealand (South)
- Lachnagrostis barbuligera - South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
- Lachnagrostis billardierei - Australia, New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham Is)
- Lachnagrostis collicola - Tasmania
- Lachnagrostis deflexa - Victoria
- Lachnagrostis distans - South Australia
- Lachnagrostis drummondiana - Western Australia
- Lachnagrostis elata - New Zealand (North+ South)
- Lachnagrostis eriantha - South Africa
- Lachnagrostis filiformis - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is, New Zealand (North+ South + Antipodes+ Chatham + Kermadec Is), Easter I; naturalized in South Africa, Taiwan, scattered locales in the Americas
- Lachnagrostis glabra - New Zealand (North)
- Lachnagrostis huttoniae - South Africa
- Lachnagrostis lachnantha - Yemen, eastern + southern Africa from Eritrea to Cape Province
- Lachnagrostis lacunis - Tasmania
- Lachnagrostis leptostachys - New Zealand (Antipodes)
- Lachnagrostis leviseta - Victoria
- Lachnagrostis limitanea - South Australia
- Lachnagrostis littoralis - New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham + Kermadec Is)
- Lachnagrostis lyallii - New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham Is)
- Lachnagrostis meionectes- Victoria, New South Wales
- Lachnagrostis morrisii - Tasmania
- Lachnagrostis nesomytica - Western Australia
- Lachnagrostis palustris - South Australia, Victoria
- Lachnagrostis perennis - South Australia
- Lachnagrostis pilosa - New Zealand (North+ South+ Antipodes + Chatham Is)
- Lachnagrostis plebeia - Western Australia, South Australia
- Lachnagrostis polypogonoides - South Africa
- Lachnagrostis preissii - Western Australia
- Lachnagrostis robusta - South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania
- Lachnagrostis rudis - South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania
- Lachnagrostis schlechteri - Cape Province of South Africa
- Lachnagrostis semibarbata - South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania
- Lachnagrostis sodiroana - Ecuador, Peru
- Lachnagrostis striata - New Zealand (North + South)
- Lachnagrostis tenuis - New Zealand (South)
- Lachnagrostis uda - New Zealand (South)
Hybrids
[edit]- Lachnagrostis × contracta - Victoria (L. adamsonii × L. deflexa)
- Lachnagrostis × ripulae - Victoria (L. filiformis × L. rudis)
- formerly included
see Agrostis Calamagrostis Gastridium Triplachne
- Lachnagrostis australis - Calamagrostis australis
- Lachnagrostis ciliata - Agrostis pilosula
- Lachnagrostis griffithiana - Agrostis griffithiana
- Lachnagrostis gussonis - Triplachne nitens
- Lachnagrostis hookeri - Agrostis pilosula
- Lachnagrostis hookeriana - Agrostis pilosula
- Lachnagrostis phleoides - Gastridium phleoides
- Lachnagrostis royleana - Agrostis pilosula
- Lachnagrostis roylei - Agrostis pilosula
- Lachnagrostis scabra Nees ex Steud. 1820 not A.J.Br. 2006 - Agrostis pilosula
- Lachnagrostis willdenowii Nees 1843 not Trin. 1824 - Agrostis venusta
References
[edit]- ^ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 128, plate 10
- ^ lectotype designated by Zotov, Records Dom. Mus. 5(15): 142-143 (1965)
- ^ a b Tropicos, Lachnagrostis Trin.
- ^ "The genus Lachnagrostis (Gramineae) in Australia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
- ^ "Lachnagrostis Trin. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
- ^ Connor (2000). "Lachnagrostis Trin".
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia. "Profile". profiles.ala.org.au. Archived from the original on 2025-03-27. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Edgar, E. 1995. New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P. Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Gramineae: Aveneae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 1–33
- ^ Rúgolo de Agrasar, Z. & A. M. Molina. 2002. El género Lachnagrostis (Gramineae: Agrostideae) en América del Sur. 20–32. In La Botánica en el Nuevo Milenio: Memorias del Tercer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Botánica. FUNBOTANICA, Quito