Coleochloa

Short description: Genus of grass-like plants

Coleochloa

Habit of Myrothamnus flabellifolius during wet season, growing on quartzite with grasslike tufts of Coleochloa setifera (Ridl.) Gilly, Hamerkop Kloof, Magaliesberg, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Cyperaceae
Genus:  | Coleochloa
Gilly
Synonyms[1]

Eriospora Hochst. ex A.Rich.

Coleochloa is a plant genus in the family Cyperaceae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa and on the Island of Madagascar .[1][2][3][4]

## Species

* Coleochloa abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Gilly \- eastern and central Africa from Ethiopia west to Nigeria and south to Angola
* Coleochloa domensis Muasya & D.A.Simpson \- epiphyte from Cameroon
* Coleochloa glabra Nelmes \- Jebel Oda Mountain in northeastern Sudan
* Coleochloa microcephala Nelmes \- Mt. Sanje in Tanzania
* Coleochloa pallidior Nelmes \- Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Northern Province of South Africa
* Coleochloa schweinfurthiana (Boeckeler) Nelmes \- Jebel Bangenze of Sudan
* Coleochloa setifera (Ridl.) Gilly \- from Tanzania and Zaire south to South Africa; also Madagascar

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. ↑ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. ↑ Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H. (2010). Cyperaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-466.
4. ↑ Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.

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