Megastachya is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[5][6][7]

Megastachya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Centotheceae
Genus: Megastachya
P.Beauv.
Type species
Megastachya owariensis[1][2]
(syn of M. mucronata)[3]
Synonyms[4]
  • Magastachya P.Beauv., alternate spelling
  • Eragrostis unranked Megastachya (P. Beauv.) Nees
  • Eragrostis sect. Megastachya (P. Beauv.) Benth.
  • Eragrostis ser. Megastachyae (P. Beauv.) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Eragrostis subsect. Megastachya (P. Beauv.) Benth.
Species[8][3]
Formerly included[8]

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

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  1. ^ lectotype designated by Niles & Chase Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24: 182. 1925
  2. ^ The International Plant Names Index
  3. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ a b Tropicos, Megastachya P. Beauv.
  5. ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 74, 167 in Latin
  6. ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XV (15), figure V (5 a-c) line drawings of Megastachya owariensis (identified on caption page 11), (syn of Megastachya mucronata)
  7. ^ "RBG Kew: GrassBase - Megastachya Description". www.kew.org. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  8. ^ a b The Plant List search for Megastachya Archived 2020-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557
  10. ^ Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420