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Microstegium
Genus of grasses
Microstegium is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the sorghum tribe within the grass family. Browntop is a common name.
- Species
- Microstegium batangense - Sichuan
- Microstegium biaristatum - East + Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea
- Microstegium borianum - Meghalaya
- Microstegium brandisii - Taiwan, Myanmar, Java, Bali, Flores, Sulawesi
- Microstegium butuoense - Sichuan
- Microstegium delicatulum - Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
- Microstegium dispar - Java, Bali, Flores
- Microstegium eucnemis - India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
- Microstegium falconeri - Himalayas
- Microstegium fasciculatum - China, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, tropical Africa
- Microstegium fauriei - Taiwan
- Microstegium geniculatum - China, Southeast Asia
- Microstegium glabratum - Philippines, Indonesia, Hainan, Papuasia, Micronesia, Ryukyu Islands, Society Islands
- Microstegium japonicum - China, Japan, Korea
- Microstegium lanceolatum - Yunnan
- Microstegium monoracemum - Guangdong
- Microstegium nudum - China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, tropical + southern Africa
- Microstegium petiolare - Yunnan, Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand
- Microstegium rufispicum - Java
- Microstegium somae - Anhui, Fujian, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan
- Microstegium spectabile - Papuasia, Southeast Asia, Hainan, Taiwan, Hong Kong
- Microstegium stapfii - Myanmar
- Microstegium steenisii - Java
- Microstegium tenue - Taiwan, Luzon, Kosrae
- Microstegium vimineum - Primorye, China, Japan, Korea, Himalayas, Southeast Asia; invasive in North America and in parts of Africa
- formerly included
- Microstegium pseudeulalia - Schizachyrium pseudeulalia
- Microstegium rupestre - Ischaemum polystachyum
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- Microstegium vimineum NPS-1.jpg by Theresa Yednock (NPS), Public domain
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