Dichelachne Explained

Dichelachne is a genus of Australian, Indonesian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. They are known commonly as plumegrasses.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

The genus includes the following species:^{[4] [5]}

• 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:^[4]

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

Notes and References

1. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Dichelachne Dichelachne.
2. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00187.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
3. 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.
4. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451383 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
5. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Dichelachne The Plant List search for Dichelachne