Tripsacum
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Tripsacum is a genus
of grass in the Poaceae
family.
Species include:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of grass in the Poaceae
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
family.
Species include:
- T. andersonii
- T. australe
- T. cundinamarce
- T. dactyloidesTripsacum dactyloidesTripsacum dactyloides is a prairie grass of the Great Plains. Gama Grass is found as far northwest as Nebraska....
- T. fasciculatum (not listed by Kew)
- T. floridanum
- T. intermedium
- T. jalapense
- T. lanceolatum
- T. latifolium
- T. laxumTripsacum laxumTripsacum laxum, the Guatemalan gamagrass, is a species of grass in the Poaceae family. It is a larger perennial bunchgrass of the Caribbean, Central America, such as in Nicaragua and Guatemala, and North America in southern Mexico....
- T. maizar
- T. manisuroides
- T. peruvianum
- T. pilosum
- T. zopilotense