Polytrias

Polytrias is a genus of Asian, African, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family, commonly called Java grass, Batiki bluegrass, Indian murainagrass, or toto grass.[4][3] The only known species is Polytrias indica, native to West Africa (from Senegal to Cameroon), Seychelles, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Fiji, and Micronesia. It is also cultivated as a lawn grass in other tropical regions, and naturalized in scattered locations in tropical North and South America.[1][2][5]

Polytrias
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Supertribe: Andropogonodae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Subtribe: Saccharinae
Genus: Polytrias
Hack.
Species:
P. indica
Binomial name
Polytrias indica
Synonyms[1][2][3]
  • Aethonopogon Hack. ex Kuntze
  • Eulalia subg. Polytrias (Hack.) Ohwi
  • Eulalia sect. Polytrias (Hackel) Pilger.
  • Phleum indicum Houtt.
  • Polytrias amaura (Buse) Kuntze
  • Aethonopogon praemorsus Hack. ex Kuntze
  • Pollinia praemorsa Nees
  • Polytrias racemosa (Nees) Hack.
  • Ischaemum indicum (Houtt.) Merr.
  • Andropogon amaurus Buse
  • Andropogon diversiflorus Steud.
  • Andropogon firmandus Steud.
  • Pollinia praemorsa Nees ex Steud.
  • Polytrias praemorsa (Nees ex Steud.) Hack.
  • Aethonopogon praemorsus Hack. ex Kuntze
  • Polytrias amaura var. pallida Kuntze
  • Polytrias diversiflora (Steud.) Nash
  • Eulalia praemorsa (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf ex Ridl.
  • Eulalia amaura Ohwi
  • Pogonatherum amaurum Roberty
  • Eulalia nana Keng & S.L.Chen
  • Polytrias amaura var. nana (Keng & S.L.Chen) S.L.Chen
  • Polytrias indica var. nana (Keng & S.L.Chen) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen

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