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Megastachya
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Species
Little Lovegrass
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 98
- With media
- 57
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- MO, MEL, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Gabon, Benin, Equatorial Guinea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Megastachya is a genus of African plants in the grass family. Species Megastachya madagascariensis (Lam.) Chase – Madagascar Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P.Beauv. – Madagascar, South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, etc. Formerly included numerous species once regarded as part of Megastachya but now considered better suited to other genera: Catapodium Desmostachya Distichlis Enteropogon Eragrostis Glyceria Halopyrum Leptochloa Poa
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megastachya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.