Poaceae
Hyparrhenia

Hyparrhenia bracteata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Stapf

First published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 360 (1919)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical Africa, Indo-China, New Guinea, Mexico to S. Tropical America. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (1994). Flora Mesoamericana 6: 1-543. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Hedberg, I., Friis, I. & Persson, E. (2009). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 1: 1-305. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Henty, E.E. (1969). A manual of the grasses of New Guinea: 1-215. Division of Botany, Dpt. of Forests, LAE, New Guinea.
  • Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
  • Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Clayton in Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 2: 144. (1969)
  • in F.T.A. 9: 360 (1919)

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
  • Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 2(2): 1-94. ORSTOM, Bangui.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Camus, E.G. & Camus, A. in H. Lecomte (1922). Flore Générale de l'indo-Chine 1(3): 193-336.
  • Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
  • Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (1994). Flora Mesoamericana 6: 1-543. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Forzza, R.C. & al. (2013). Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Hedberg, I., Friis, I. & Persson, E. (2009). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 1: 1-305. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Henty, E.E. (1969). A manual of the grasses of New Guinea: 1-215. Division of Botany, Dpt. of Forests, LAE, New Guinea.
  • Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Robyns, W. (1929). Flore Agrostologique du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1: 1-229. Goemaere, Bruxelles.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A.V. Bogdan, A Revised List of Kenya Grasses p. 61 (1958).
  • Clayton in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3: 494 (1972).
  • D.M. Napper, Grasses of Tanganyika: 110 (1965).
  • Eggeling, Ann. list grasses Ug.: 23 (1947).
  • Jackson & Wiehe, Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 43 (1958).
  • K.W. Harker & D.M. Napper, An Illustrated Guide to the Grasses of Uganda p. 37 (1960).
  • Robyns, Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 190 (1929).
  • Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 3: 66 (1955).
  • Stapf in Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 360 (1919).

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2014 Burchell, W.J. [8938] Brazil K001059317 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [20069] Brazil K001059322 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [18650] Brazil K001059324 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Dusén, P. [11616] Brazil K001059320 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Riedel, L. [2135] Brazil K001059321 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [22368] Brazil K001059323 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Burchell, W.J. [4457] Brazil K001059316 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [17443] Brazil K001059311 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Widgren, J.F. [s.n.] Brazil K001059313 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [22378] Brazil K001059315 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [13336] Brazil K001059312 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Glaziou, A.F.M. [17884] Brazil K001059314 Yes
Jan 1, 2014 Gardner, G. [4056] Brazil K001059307 Yes
Jan 1, 1973 Irwin, H.S.; Santos, R.R.; Souza, R.; Fonseca, S.F., da [24392] Brazil K001059309 Yes
Jan 1, 1973 Irwin, H.S.; Grear, J.W., Jr.; Souza, R.; Santos, R.R. [13841] Brazil K001059308 Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Irwin, H.S.; Grear, J.W., Jr.; Souza, R.; Santos, R.R. [16363] Brazil K001059310 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8776] Zambia K001561591 Yes
O. [Lahiparawasha] [686] Zimbabwe K002073947 Yes
Quarré [273] K000280353 Isotype Yes
s.coll. [1231] Zimbabwe K002073939 Yes
Linden, J.J. [1556] Western South America K000975002 Unknown Type Material Yes
Linden, J.J. [1556] Western South America K000975003 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gossweiler, J. [s.n.] Angola K002073949 Yes
Hatschbach, G.G.; Haas, H. [13981] Brazil K001059319 Yes
s.coll. [1231] Zimbabwe K002073940 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8737] Zambia K001561588 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8647] Zambia K001561595 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8676] Zambia K001561578 Yes
Gossweiler, J. [2598] Angola K002073958 Yes
Riedel, L. [156] Brazil K000975000 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gilliland, H.B. [1829] Zimbabwe K002073938 Yes
Corby, H.D.L. [20978] Zimbabwe K002073943 Yes
Corby, H.D.L. [439] Zimbabwe K002073945 Yes
Brain, C.K. [3531] Zimbabwe K002073948 Yes
s.coll. [11608] Angola K002073953 Yes
s.coll. [1[74]] Zimbabwe K002073941 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8833] Zambia K001561575 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8753] Zambia K001561580 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8454] Zambia K001561581 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8454] Zambia K001561582 Yes
Bidgood, S.; Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. [8754] Zambia K001561589 Yes
Gossweiler, J. [3924] Angola K002073955 Yes
Corby, H.D.L. [440] Zimbabwe K002073944 Yes
Mildbraed [98] Tanzania K000280252 Isotype Yes
Gossweiler, J. [3124] Angola K002073951 Yes
Sellow, F. [s.n.] Brazil K000974999 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gossweiler, J. [3925] Angola K002073952 Yes
s.coll. [11610] Angola K002073959 Yes
s.coll. [11546] Angola K002073954 Yes
Hoehne, W. [3161] Brazil K001059318 Yes
Gossweiler, J. [2577] Angola K002073950 Yes
Gossweiler, J. [3925] Angola K002073957 Yes
Funcke, H.C. [743] Venezuela K000975001 Type Yes
Gossweiler, J. [s.n.] Angola K002073956 Yes
Corby, H.D.L. [406] Zimbabwe K002073946 Yes
Davies, R.N. [32697] Zimbabwe K002073942 Yes

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