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Piptochaetium
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Piptochaetium, or speargrass,[3] is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to North and South America. Piptochaetium is a bunchgrass genus in the tribe Stipeae.[4][5][6][7][8]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Type species ...

Some of its species have been included in the genus Stipa by some authors.[9][10]

Species[2][11][12][13][14][15]
  • Piptochaetium alpinum - Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul
  • Piptochaetium angolense - Coquimbo
  • Piptochaetium angustifolium - Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, México State
  • Piptochaetium avenaceum — black oatgrass, blackseed needlegrass - United States (Texas to Florida north to Massachusetts + Michigan), Ontario, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León
  • Piptochaetium avenacioides - Florida speargrass - Florida
  • Piptochaetium bicolor - Rio Grande do Sul, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile incl Juan Fernández Islands
  • Piptochaetium brachyspermum - Buenos Aires
  • Piptochaetium brevicalyx - central + eastern Mexico
  • Piptochaetium burkartianum - Corrientes
  • Piptochaetium cabrerae - Buenos Aires
  • Piptochaetium calvescens - Buenos Aires, Uruguay
  • Piptochaetium confusum - Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul, Entre Rios
  • Piptochaetium cucullatum - Uruguay
  • Piptochaetium featherstonei - Peru, Bolivia
  • Piptochaetium fimbriatum - pinyon ricegrass - Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Guatemala
  • Piptochaetium hackelii - Argentina, Uruguay
  • Piptochaetium hirtum - Chile
  • Piptochaetium indutum - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Salta, Jujuy
  • Piptochaetium jubatum - Uruguay
  • Piptochaetium lasianthum - Uruguay, Argentina, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul
  • Piptochaetium leiopodum - Buenos Aires, Uruguay
  • Piptochaetium medium - Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela
  • Piptochaetium montevidense - Uruguayan ricegrass - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela
  • Piptochaetium napostaense - Argentina
  • Piptochaetium palustre - Santa Catarina
  • Piptochaetium panicoides - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela
  • Piptochaetium pringlei - Pringle's speargrass - Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico
  • Piptochaetium ruprechtianum - Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil
  • Piptochaetium sagasteguii - Peru
  • Piptochaetium seleri - Mexico, Guatemala
  • Piptochaetium setosum - bristly speargrass - Chile
  • Piptochaetium stipoides - purple speargrass - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia; naturalized in Mexico, California
  • Piptochaetium tovarii - Peru
  • Piptochaetium uruguense - Argentina, Uruguay, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraguay, San Luis Potosí
  • Piptochaetium virescens - Mexico, Guatemala
formerly included[2]

see Nassella Stipa

  • Piptochaetium collinum - Nassella laevissima
  • Piptochaetium gibbum - Nassella gibba
  • Piptochaetium laeve - Nassella pubiflora
  • Piptochaetium laevissimum - Nassella laevissima
  • Piptochaetium mexicanum - Nassella mexicana
  • Piptochaetium mucronatum - Nassella mucronata
  • Piptochaetium ovatum - Stipa ovata
  • Piptochaetium trichotomum - Nassella trichotoma
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