Microstegium
Microstegium vimineum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Genus: Microstegium
Nees 1836 not Lindb. 1865 (moss in Funariaceae)
Type species
Microstegium willdenowianum
(syn of M. vimineum)[1]
Nees ex Steud.[1]
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Eulalia sect. Microstegium ( Nees ) Kuntze [3]
  • Dactylus Burm.f. 1768 not Forssk. 1775 nor Asch. 1864
  • Leptatherum Nees
  • Psilopogon Hochst.
  • Nemastachys Steud.
  • Coelarthron Hook.f.
  • Ischnochloa Hook.f.
  • Polliniopsis Hayata

Microstegium is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the sorghum tribe within the grass family.[4][5] Browntop is a common name.[6]

Species[2]
formerly included[2]

see Ischaemum Schizachyrium

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tropicos, Microstegium Nees
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. The International Plant Names Index
  4. Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel in Lindley, John. 1836. Natural System of Botany 447.
  5. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 593 莠竹属 you zhu shu Microstegium Nees in Lindley
  6. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Microstegium". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 July 2015.


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