Austrostipa

Austrostipa is a primarily Australian genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called speargrass.[1][2][3][4]

Speargrass
Austrostipa nodosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Stipodae
Tribe: Stipeae
Genus: Austrostipa
S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett
Type species
Austrostipa mollis
(R.Br.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett

The genus includes species formerly included in the genus Stipa. All known species are native to Australia, most of them found nowhere else. One species (A. variabilis) is, however, found in South Africa as well as in Australia, and two species (A. setacea + A. stipoides) are native to Australia and New Zealand.[5] The group likely originated in Australia approximately 20 million years ago.[6]

Species[7][8][9]
  • Austrostipa acrociliata
  • Austrostipa aphylla
  • Austrostipa aquarii
  • Austrostipa aristiglumis
  • Austrostipa bigeniculata
  • Austrostipa blackii
  • Austrostipa blakei
  • Austrostipa breviglumis
  • Austrostipa bronwenae
  • Austrostipa campylachne
  • Austrostipa centralis
  • Austrostipa compressa
  • Austrostipa crinita
  • Austrostipa curticoma
  • Austrostipa densiflora
  • Austrostipa dongicola
  • Austrostipa drummondii
  • Austrostipa echinata
  • Austrostipa elegantissima (feather speargrass)
  • Austrostipa eremophila
  • Austrostipa exilis
  • Austrostipa feresetacea
  • Austrostipa flavescens (coast speargrass)
  • Austrostipa geoffreyi
  • Austrostipa gibbosa
  • Austrostipa hemipogon
  • Austrostipa jacobsiana
  • Austrostipa juncifolia
  • Austrostipa lanata
  • Austrostipa macalpinei
  • Austrostipa metatoris
  • Austrostipa mollis
  • Austrostipa muelleri
  • Austrostipa multispiculis
  • Austrostipa mundula
  • Austrostipa nitida
  • Austrostipa nivicola
  • Austrostipa nodosa
  • Austrostipa nullanulla (club speargrass)
  • Austrostipa nullarborensis
  • Austrostipa oligostachya
  • Austrostipa petraea
  • Austrostipa pilata
  • Austrostipa platychaeta (flatawn speargrass)
  • Austrostipa plumigera
  • Austrostipa puberula
  • Austrostipa pubescens
  • Austrostipa pubinodis
  • Austrostipa pycnostachya
  • Austrostipa ramosissima (stout bamboo grass)
  • Austrostipa rudis
  • Austrostipa scabra (speargrass)
  • Austrostipa semibarbata
  • Austrostipa setacea (corkscrew grass)
  • Austrostipa stipoides (prickly speargrass)
  • Austrostipa stuposa
  • Austrostipa tenuifolia
  • Austrostipa trichophylla
  • Austrostipa tuckeri
  • Austrostipa variabilis
  • Austrostipa velutina
  • Austrostipa verticillata (slender bamboo grass)
  • Austrostipa vickeryana
  • Austrostipa wakoolica

References
  1. Jacobs, Surrey Wilfrid Laurance & Everett, Joy 1996. Telopea 6: 579–595
  2. Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  3. Australian Plant Name Index (APNI): Austrostipa
  4. PlantNET: New South Wales Flora Online: Austrostipa
  5. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. Syme, A. E. (2012). Diversification rates in the Australasian endemic grass Austrostipa - 15 million years of constant evolution. "Plant Systematics and Evolution" 298 (1):221-227.
  7. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  8. FloraBase - The Western Australian flora online: Austrostipa — list of species
  9. Atlas of Living Australia, Austrostipa S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett Spear-grasses


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