# Hyparrhenia

Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses. Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.
They are mostly native to tropical Africa; some can be found in warmer areas in temperate Eurasia, Australia, and Latin America. These are annual and perennial bunch grasses. The inflorescence branches into twin spikes of paired spikelets.

## Species

* Hyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province
* Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola
* Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia
* Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi
* Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia
* Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa
* Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi
* Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa (from Mali to Zimbabwe), Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America (from Veracruz to Paraná)
* Hyparrhenia claytonii - Ethiopia
* Hyparrhenia coleotricha - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
* Hyparrhenia collina - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
* Hyparrhenia confinis - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia
* Hyparrhenia coriacea - Central African Rep
* Hyparrhenia cyanescens from Gambia to Zaïre
* Hyparrhenia cymbaria - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India
* Hyparrhenia dichroa - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal
* Hyparrhenia diplandra - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi
* Hyparrhenia dregeana - from Yemen and Eritrea to Eswatini
* Hyparrhenia dybowskii - Zaïre, Central African Rep
* Hyparrhenia exarmata - from Mali to Kenya
* Hyparrhenia familiaris - from Guinea to Angola
* Hyparrhenia figariana - from Nigeria to Tanzania
* Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
* Hyparrhenia finitima - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga
* Hyparrhenia formosa - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi
* Hyparrhenia gazensis - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal
* Hyparrhenia glabriuscula - tropical Africa
* Hyparrhenia gossweileri - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia
* Hyparrhenia griffithii - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Vietnam
* Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America
* Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep
* Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique
* Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi
* Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan
* Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia
* Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa (from Guinea to Eswatini), Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
* Hyparrhenia niariensis - from Cameroon to Zambia
* Hyparrhenia nyassae - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam
* Hyparrhenia papillipes - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar
* Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal
* Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep
* Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
* Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi
* Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal
* Hyparrhenia rudis - tropical Africa, Madagascar
* Hyparrhenia rufa - tropical - southern Africa; Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Florida, Texas, Latin America (from Chihuahua to Paraguay); various islands in Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean
* Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar
* Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep
* Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe
* Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho
* Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia
* Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros
* Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar
* Hyparrhenia violascens - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon
* Hyparrhenia welwitschii - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros
* Hyparrhenia wombaliensis - Cameroon, Congo Rep, Zaïre

## formerly included

see Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia
* Hyparrhenia abyssinica - Exotheca abyssinica
* Hyparrhenia archaelymandra - Elymandra archaelymandra
* Hyparrhenia baddadae - Elymandra grallata
* Hyparrhenia cornucopiae - Hyperthelia cornucopiae
* Hyparrhenia dissoluta - Hyperthelia dissoluta
* Hyparrhenia djalonica - Parahyparrhenia annua
* Hyparrhenia edulis - Hyperthelia edulis
* Hyparrhenia eylesii - Elymandra grallata
* Hyparrhenia grallata - Elymandra grallata
* Hyparrhenia jaegeriana - Parahyparrhenia annua
* Hyparrhenia lithophila - Elymandra lithophila
* Hyparrhenia macrolepis - Hyperthelia dissoluta
* Hyparrhenia monathera - Exotheca abyssinica
* Hyparrhenia pusilla - Andropogon pusillus
* Hyparrhenia sulcata - Parahyparrhenia annua