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Megastachya
Sign in to saveMegastachya is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Megastachya, and connects out to Africa, South Africa and Ethiopia.
Vinony files it under Grasses of Africa, Panicoideae and Poaceae genera.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Little Lovegrass
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 98
- With media
- 57
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- MO, MEL, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Gabon, Benin, Equatorial Guinea
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Megastachya
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Megastachya
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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.