Hackelochloa

Hackelochloa is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.^[2][3]

Hackelochloa
Hackelochloa sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:	Andropogonodae
Tribe:	Andropogoneae
Subtribe:	Rottboelliinae
Genus:	Hackelochloa Kuntze
Type species
Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze
Synonyms[1]
Rytilix Raf. ex Hitchc.

The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891.^[4]

Species

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• Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze - sub-Saharan Africa; southern Asia from Yemen to Japan to Indonesia; Papuasia, Micronesia; naturalized in Western Hemisphere from Maryland to Paraguay
• Hackelochloa porifera (Hack.) D. Rhind. - Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Vietnam