Polytrias

Short description: Genus of plants

Polytrias

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Poaceae
Subfamily:  | Panicoideae
Supertribe:  | Andropogonodae
Tribe:  | Andropogoneae
Subtribe:  | Saccharinae
Genus:  | Polytrias
Hack.
Species:  |

P. indica

Binomial name
Polytrias indica

(Houtt.) Veldkamp

Synonyms[1][2][3]

* Aethonopogon Hack. ex Kuntze
* Eulalia subg. Polytrias (Hack.) Ohwi
* Eulalia sect. Polytrias (Hackel) Pilger.
* Phleum indicum Houtt.
* Polytrias amaura (Buse) Kuntze
* Aethonopogon praemorsus Hack. ex Kuntze
* Pollinia praemorsa Nees
* Polytrias racemosa (Nees) Hack.
* Ischaemum indicum (Houtt.) Merr.
* Andropogon amaurus Buse
* Andropogon diversiflorus Steud.
* Andropogon firmandus Steud.
* Pollinia praemorsa Nees ex Steud.
* Polytrias praemorsa (Nees ex Steud.) Hack.
* Aethonopogon praemorsus Hack. ex Kuntze
* Polytrias amaura var. pallida Kuntze
* Polytrias diversiflora (Steud.) Nash
* Eulalia praemorsa (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf ex Ridl.
* Eulalia amaura Ohwi
* Pogonatherum amaurum Roberty
* Eulalia nana Keng & S.L.Chen
* Polytrias amaura var. nana (Keng & S.L.Chen) S.L.Chen
* Polytrias indica var. nana (Keng & S.L.Chen) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen

Polytrias is a genus of Asian, African, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, commonly called Java grass, Batiki bluegrass, Indian murainagrass, or toto grass.[4][3] The only known species is Polytrias indica, native to West Africa (from Senegal to Cameroon), Seychelles, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China , Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Fiji, and Micronesia. It is also cultivated as a lawn grass in other tropical regions, and naturalized in scattered locations in tropical North and South America.[1][2][5]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 592 单序草属 dan xu cao shu Polytrias Hackel in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(2): 24. 1887.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tropicos, Polytrias Hack.
4. ↑ Hackel, Eduard 1887. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 2(2): 24. in German
5. ↑ Bor, N. L. 1960. Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford

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