Isachne

Isachne
Isachne globosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Isachne R.Br.
Type species
Isachne australis (syn of I. globosa)[1] R.Br.[2]
Synonyms[2]
Panicum sect. Isachne (R. Br.) Trin.

Isachne is a widespread genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, found in Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various oceanic islands.^[3][4] They may be known generally as bloodgrasses.^[5][2]

These are annual and perennial grasses. The stems are hollow, the leaves are often nerved, and the inflorescence may be an open or narrow panicle. The spikelets are rounded to spherical.^[4] Many species are aquatic. Isachne globosa is a weed of rice cultivation.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Species^[1][12][13]

1. Isachne albens - Southeast Asia, China, Himalayas, New Guinea
2. Isachne albomarginata - Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea
3. Isachne angladei - Tamil Nadu
4. Isachne angolensis - tropical Africa
5. Isachne angustifolia - Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles
6. Isachne arfakensis - New Guinea
7. Isachne arundinacea - tropical Americas
8. Isachne ascendens - Vietnam
9. Isachne bicolor - Maharashtra
10. Isachne borii - Maharashtra
11. Isachne bourneorum - Tamil Nadu, Kerala
12. Isachne brassii - Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea
13. Isachne buettneri - tropical Africa
14. Isachne cambodiensis - Cambodia
15. Isachne carolinensis - Solomon Islands, Caroline Islands
16. Isachne cernua - Réunion
17. Isachne chevalieri - Vietnam
18. Isachne ciliaris - Madagascar
19. Isachne ciliatiflora - Sichuan
20. Isachne clarkei - Southeast Asia, China, Himalayas
21. Isachne clementis - Borneo
22. Isachne cochinchinensis - Vietnam, Laos
23. Isachne comata - New Caledonia, Vanuatu
24. Isachne confusa - Southeast Asia, China, Himalayas, New Guinea, Australia
25. Isachne deccanensis - Tamil Nadu
26. Isachne diabolica - Sumatra
27. Isachne dimyloides - Sikkim
28. Isachne dioica - Vietnam
29. Isachne disperma - Trinidad, Lesser Antilles
30. Isachne distichophylla - Hawaii, Cook Islands
31. Isachne eberhardtii - Vietnam
32. Isachne elegans - India, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar
33. Isachne fischeri - Tamil Nadu, Kerala
34. Isachne globosa - Asia from Oman to Japan to Maluku; Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Micronesia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Cook Islands
35. Isachne goiasensis - Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, D.F.
36. Isachne gossweileri - Angola
37. Isachne gracilis - Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh
38. Isachne guangxiensis - Fujian, Guangxi, Hong Kong
39. Isachne guineensis - Guinea
40. Isachne hainanensis - Guangdong, Hainan
41. Isachne henryi - Kerala
42. Isachne himalaica - Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Tibet, Nepal, Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
43. Isachne hirtissima - Madagascar
44. Isachne hoi - Guangdong, Hunan, Zhejiang
45. Isachne homonyma - Réunion
46. Isachne humbertiana - Madagascar
47. Isachne humicola - Madagascar
48. Isachne jayachandranii - Kerala
49. Isachne kinabaluensis - Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
50. Isachne kiyalaensis - tropical Africa
51. Isachne kunthiana - China, Nansei-shoto, Southeast Asia, Papuasia
52. Isachne laevis - Réunion
53. Isachne langkawiensis - Langkawi
54. Isachne leersioides - Cuba
55. Isachne ligulata - Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
56. Isachne lisboae - Karnataka, Maharashtra, Vietnam
57. Isachne longifolia - Réunion
58. Isachne lutchuensis - Nansei-shoto
59. Isachne mauritiana - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Réunion, Mauritius
60. Isachne meeboldii - Karnataka
61. Isachne minutula - India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia
62. Isachne multiflora - Sri Lanka
63. Isachne muscicola - Madagascar
64. Isachne myosotis - China, Nansei-shoto, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Australia
65. Isachne mysorensis - Karnataka
66. Isachne nipponensis - China incl Taiwan, Korea, Japan incl Nansei-shoto
67. Isachne obtecta - New Guinea
68. Isachne oreades - Tamil Nadu
69. Isachne pallens - Hawaii
70. Isachne pangerangensis - Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Islands, Philippines, New Guinea
71. Isachne pauciflora - Taiwan, Philippines, New Guinea
72. Isachne perrieri - Madagascar
73. Isachne petelotii - Vietnam
74. Isachne polygonoides - tropical Americas
75. Isachne puberula - Thailand
76. Isachne pubescens - Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Veracruz
77. Isachne pulchella - Asia from India to Taiwan to Philippines; New Guinea, Mariana Islands
78. Isachne pygmaea - Jamaica
79. Isachne rigens - Guatemala, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador
80. Isachne rigidifolia - Greater + Lesser Antilles
81. Isachne salzmannii - Bahia
82. Isachne saxicola - Malaysia, Borneo
83. Isachne scabrosa - Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet, Assam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh
84. Isachne setosa - Tamil Nadu, Kerala
85. Isachne sharpii - Queensland
86. Isachne sikkimensis - Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan
87. Isachne smitinandiana - Thailand, Vietnam
88. Isachne stenantha - Madagascar
89. Isachne swaminathanii - Sulawesi Selatan
90. Isachne sylvestris - Assam, Fujian, Guangdong, Pen Malaysia, Sumatra
91. Isachne trachycaula - Sumatra
92. Isachne truncata - Vietnam, southern China
93. Isachne vaughanii - Mauritius
94. Isachne veldkampii - Karnataka
95. Isachne venusta - Réunion
96. Isachne villosa - Papuasia
97. Isachne vitiensis - Vanuatu, Fiji
98. Isachne walkeri - Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala

formerly included^[1]

see Chascolytrum Coelachne Cyrtococcum Panicum Streptostachys

• Isachne biflora - Panicum brevifolium
• Isachne brachyglumis - Coelachne simpliciuscula
• Isachne fauriei - Panicum sarmentosum
• Isachne filifolia - Panicum brazzavillense
• Isachne gardneri - Panicum gardneri
• Isachne hackelii - Chascolytrum poimorphum
• Isachne hispidula - Coelachne simpliciuscula
• Isachne jardinii - Cyrtococcum chaetophoron
• Isachne kidumaensis - Panicum nervatum
• Isachne kingundaensis - Cyrtococcum chaetophoron
• Isachne kinshasaensis - Panicum brazzavillense
• Isachne lamarckii - Panicum brevifolium
• Isachne margaritifera - Panicum margaritiferum
• Isachne mayocoensis - Panicum trichoides
• Isachne nervata - Panicum nervatum
• Isachne obscurans - Panicum hippothrix
• Isachne perpusilla - Coelachne perpusilla
• Isachne poimorpha - Chascolytrum poimorphum
• Isachne prostrata - Panicum horticola
• Isachne refracta - Panicum hochstetteri
• Isachne sapinii - Panicum strictissimum
• Isachne simpliciuscula - Coelachne simpliciuscula
• Isachne streptostachys - Streptostachys asperifolia
• Isachne tricarinata - Panicum brevifolium
• Isachne trochainii - Panicum tenellum
• Isachne wombaliensis - Panicum nervatum

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Tropicos, Isachne R.Br.
3. Brown, Robert 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 196 in Latin
4. Isachne. Flora of Taiwan: Gramineae.
5. Isachne. USDA PLANTS.
6. Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. 1992 onwards. Isachne. The Grass Genera of the World. Version: 18 December 2012.
7. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 554 柳叶箬属 liu ye ruo shu Isachne R. Brown, Prodr. 196. 1810.
8. Atlas of Living Australia
9. Iskandar, E. A. P. & J. F. Veldkamp. 2004. A revision of Malesian Isachne sect. Isachne (Gramineae, Panicoideae, Isachneae). Reinwardtia 12(2): 159–179
10. Longhi-Wagner, H. M. & C. A. D. Welker. 2014. A new species of Isachne (Poaceae, Micrairoideae) from Brazil and a synopsis of the Brazilian species of the genus. Systematic Botany 39(3):845-849. 2014 39(3): 845–849, figures 1–2
11. Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420
12. The Plant List search for Isachne
13. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater. 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. 6: i–xvi, 1–543. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F..

External links

• Isachne. Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Isachne. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora.