| Plumegrasses | |
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| Dichelachne crinita | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Poodae |
| Tribe: | Poeae |
| Subtribe: | Echinopogoninae |
| Genus: | Dichelachne Endl. |
| Type species | |
| Dichelachne montana (syn of D. micrantha) Endl. | |
Dichelachne is a genus of Australian, Indonesian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. They are known commonly as plumegrasses.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
- Dichelachne crinita - longhair plumegrass, clovenfoot plumegrass - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, New Zealand (incl Chatham Is + Kermadec Is)
- Dichelachne hirtella - New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia
- Dichelachne inaequiglumis - Australia, New Zealand
- Dichelachne lautumia - South I of New Zealand
- Dichelachne micrantha - shorthair plumegrass - Australia (incl Norfolk I), New Guinea, New Zealand (North I + Kermadec Is), Rapa Iti, Easter I
- Dichelachne parva - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
- Dichelachne rara - Australia, New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is
- Dichelachne robusta - New South Wales, Victoria
- Dichelachne sieberiana - Sieber's plumegrass - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
Formerly included:
See Anemanthele, Austrostipa, Calamagrostis, Lachnagrostis, and Oryzopsis.
- Dichelachne brachyathera - Calamagrostis brachyathera
- Dichelachne drummondiana - Lachnagrostis drummondiana
- Dichelachne procera Steud. - Anemanthele lessoniana
- Dichelachne procera Trin. & Rupr. - Oryzopsis lessoniana
- Dichelachne rigida - Anemanthele lessoniana
- Dichelachne setacea - Austrostipa setacea
- Dichelachne stipoides - Austrostipa stipoides
References
- Endlicher, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus 1833. Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae 20-21 in Latin
- Dichelachne. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
- Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- Veldkamp, J.F. 1974. A taxonomic revision of Dichelachne Endl. (Gramineae) with some new combination in Stipa L. and Oryzopsis. Blumea 22(1): 5–12.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- The Plant List search for Dichelachne
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