Echinopogon
| Hedgehog grasses | |
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| Echinopogon caespitosus | |
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| Genus: | Echinopogon |
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| Agrostis ovata (syn of Echinopogon ovatus) | |
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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]
- Echinopogon caespitosus - bushy hedgehog grass, tufted hedgehog grass - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
- Echinopogon cheelii - longflower hedgehog grass - New South Wales, Victoria
- Echinopogon intermedius - erect hedgehog grass - Queensland, New South Wales
- Echinopogon mckiei - New South Wales
- Echinopogon nutans - Queensland, New South Wales, New Guinea
- Echinopogon ovatus - forest hedgehog grass - New Guinea, Australia (all 6 states plus Norfolk Island), Lesser Sunda Islands, New Zealand (North + South + Chatham Islands)
- Echinopogon phleoides - Northern Tablelands of New South Wales
- formerly included[2]
see Calamagrostis
- Echinopogon gunnianus - Calamagrostis gunniana
References
- ^ a b Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie page 42 description in Latin, commentary in French
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia, Echinopogon P.Beauv. Hedgehog Grasses
- ^ Echinopogon. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
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