# Eriochloa

Eriochloa is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called cupgrass. They are found across much of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a few places in European Russia.

## Species

* Eriochloa acuminata – tapertip cupgrass - Mexico, southern USA (from CA to MD + FL), northern Argentina
* Eriochloa aristata – bearded cupgrass - Mexico, USA (AZ, CA, MS)
* Eriochloa australiensis - Australia
* Eriochloa boliviensis - Bolivia
* Eriochloa boxiana - Mexico, Central America, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela
* Eriochloa contracta – prairie cupgrass - Mexico, USA (from CA to FL to MN), Ontario
* Eriochloa crebra - Australia
* Eriochloa distachya - Central + South America
* Eriochloa fatmensis – tropical cupgrass - sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula
* Eriochloa grandiflora - Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Paraguay, Misiones in Argentina, Minas Gerais in Brazil
* Eriochloa lemmonii – canyon cupgrass - USA (AZ, NM), northern + central Mexico
* Eriochloa macclounii - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana
* Eriochloa meyeriana - sub-Saharan Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar, Yemen
* Eriochloa michauxii – long-leaved cupgrass - USA (AL FL GA SC)
* Eriochloa montevidensis - Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador
* Eriochloa nana - Argentina (Formosa, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero)
* Eriochloa nelsonii - Mexico, Central America
* Eriochloa pacifica - Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
* Eriochloa parvispiculata - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
* Eriochloa peruviana - Peru, Ecuador
* Eriochloa polystachya – caribgrass - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, northern South America
* Eriochloa procera - Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, East Africa
* Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha - Australia
* Eriochloa punctata – Louisiana cupgrass - Central America, West Indies, South America, Mexico, USA (TX LA GA MD)
* Eriochloa rovumensis - Tanzania, Mozambique
* Eriochloa sericea – Texas cupgrass - USA (TX OK KS), Coahuila, Tamaulipas
* Eriochloa setosa - Cuba
* Eriochloa stapfiana - Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
* Eriochloa stevensii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
* Eriochloa subulifera - Aldabra, Madagascar
* Eriochloa succincta - southern European Russia, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
* Eriochloa tridentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
* Eriochloa villosa – hairy cupgrass - Russia (Amur, Primorye, Khabarovsk), China incl Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan incl Ryukyu Is
* Eriochloa weberbaueri - Peru, Ecuador

## formerly included

see Ancistrachne Axonopus Brachiaria Isachne Panicum Paspalum Tricholaena Urochloa
* Eriochloa acrotricha - Panicum acrotrichum
* Eriochloa bolbodes - Urochloa oligotricha
* Eriochloa brasiliensis - Axonopus brasiliensis
* Eriochloa castanea - Paspalum macranthecium
* Eriochloa globosa - Isachne globosa
* Eriochloa japonica - Isachne globosa
* Eriochloa maidenii - Ancistrachne maidenii
* Eriochloa pulchella - Panicum pulchellum
* Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 - Brachiaria serrata
* Eriochloa purpurascens Hochst. 1841 - Panicum gossypinum
* Eriochloa trichopus - Urochloa trichopus
* Eriochloa vestita - Tricholaena vestita