Lachnagrostis

Lachnagrostis is a genus of African, Australian, Pacific Island, and South American plants in the grass family.^[4] They are often treated as members of genus Agrostis.

Lachnagrostis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Supertribe:	Poodae
Tribe:	Poeae
Subtribe:	Agrostidinae
Genus:	Lachnagrostis Trin.[1]
Type species
Lachnagrostis filiformis (G.Forst.) Trin.[2][3]
Synonyms[3]
Agrostis sect. Lachnagrostis (Trin.) E. Desv.

The type species; Lachnagrostis filiformis

Lachnagrostis contains 38 accepted species,^[5] of which, the majority are found Australia and New Zealand. Australia is home to 21 species, and New Zealand is home to 12 species, 10 of which are endemics.^[6][7]

Species

Sources:^[8][9][10]

• Lachnagrostis adamsonii - Victoria
• Lachnagrostis aemula - Australia incl Lord Howe I
• Lachnagrostis ammobia - New Zealand (South)
• Lachnagrostis barbuligera - South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
• Lachnagrostis billardierei - Australia, New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham Is)
• Lachnagrostis collicola - Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis deflexa - Victoria
• Lachnagrostis distans - South Australia
• Lachnagrostis drummondiana - Western Australia
• Lachnagrostis elata - New Zealand (North+ South)
• Lachnagrostis eriantha - South Africa
• Lachnagrostis filiformis - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is, New Zealand (North+ South + Antipodes+ Chatham + Kermadec Is), Easter I; naturalized in South Africa, Taiwan, scattered locales in the Americas
• Lachnagrostis glabra - New Zealand (North)
• Lachnagrostis huttoniae - South Africa
• Lachnagrostis lachnantha - Yemen, eastern + southern Africa from Eritrea to Cape Province
• Lachnagrostis lacunis - Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis leptostachys - New Zealand (Antipodes)
• Lachnagrostis leviseta - Victoria
• Lachnagrostis limitanea - South Australia
• Lachnagrostis littoralis - New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham + Kermadec Is)
• Lachnagrostis lyallii - New Zealand (North+ South+ Chatham Is)
• Lachnagrostis meionectes- Victoria, New South Wales
• Lachnagrostis morrisii - Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis nesomytica - Western Australia
• Lachnagrostis palustris - South Australia, Victoria
• Lachnagrostis perennis - South Australia
• Lachnagrostis pilosa - New Zealand (North+ South+ Antipodes + Chatham Is)
• Lachnagrostis plebeia - Western Australia, South Australia
• Lachnagrostis polypogonoides - South Africa
• Lachnagrostis preissii - Western Australia
• Lachnagrostis robusta - South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis rudis - South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis schlechteri - Cape Province of South Africa
• Lachnagrostis semibarbata - South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania
• Lachnagrostis sodiroana - Ecuador, Peru
• Lachnagrostis striata - New Zealand (North + South)
• Lachnagrostis tenuis - New Zealand (South)
• Lachnagrostis uda - New Zealand (South)

Hybrids

• Lachnagrostis × contracta - Victoria (L. adamsonii × L. deflexa)
• Lachnagrostis × ripulae - Victoria (L. filiformis × L. rudis)

formerly included

see Agrostis Calamagrostis Gastridium Triplachne

• Lachnagrostis australis - Calamagrostis australis
• Lachnagrostis ciliata - Agrostis pilosula
• Lachnagrostis griffithiana - Agrostis griffithiana
• Lachnagrostis gussonis - Triplachne nitens
• Lachnagrostis hookeri - Agrostis pilosula
• Lachnagrostis hookeriana - Agrostis pilosula
• Lachnagrostis phleoides - Gastridium phleoides
• Lachnagrostis royleana - Agrostis pilosula
• Lachnagrostis roylei - Agrostis pilosula
• Lachnagrostis scabra Nees ex Steud. 1820 not A.J.Br. 2006 - Agrostis pilosula
• Lachnagrostis willdenowii Nees 1843 not Trin. 1824 - Agrostis venusta