Sehima
Genus of grasses
Sehima is a genus of mostly Asian and African plants in the grass family.
The generic name is derived from the Arabic سحيم sæḥīm ('black'), local name of the type species in its native Yemen.
- Species
- Sehima galpinii Stent - Angola, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Mpumalanga, Limpopo
- Sehima ischaemoides Forssk. - drier parts of Asia and Africa from Cape Verde to Limpopo to India
- Sehima nervosum (Rottler) Stapf - eastern Africa from Eritrea to Mozambique; southern Asia from Yemen to southern China to Java; New Guinea to northern Australia
- Sehima notatum (Hack.) A.Camus - Uttar Pradesh
- Sehima sulcatum (Hack.) A.Camus - Myanmar, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh
- formerly included
see Andropogon Andropterum Eremochloa Ischaemum Pogonachne Thelepogon Triplopogon
- Sehima beccarii - Ischaemum beccarii
- Sehima ciliare - Eremochloa ciliaris
- Sehima elegans - Thelepogon elegans
- Sehima racemosum - Pogonachne racemosa
- Sehima ramosissimum - Triplopogon ramosissimus
- Sehima spathiflorum - Triplopogon ramosissimus
- Sehima textilis - Andropogon textilis
- Sehima variegatum - Andropterum stolzii
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- Sehima nervosum imported from iNaturalist photo 229879186 on 3 January 2024.jpg by (c) T R Shankar Raman, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
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