Eriochrysis

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Eriochrysis cayennensis in Palisot de Beauvois 1812.jpg

|image_caption = Eriochrysis cayennensis

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|taxon = Eriochrysis

|authority = P.Beauv.

|type_species = Eriochrysis cayennensis

|type_species_authority = P.Beauv.

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451490 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• Leptosaccharum (Hack.) A.Camus

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Eriochrysis is a genus of African and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394087#page/92/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie pages 8-9] description in Latin, commentary in French[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394087#page/289/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate IV (4), figure XI (11 a-e at lower right)] line drawing of Eriochrysis cayennensis; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394087#page/271/mode/1up figure captions on caption page 5][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00236.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Eriochrysis The Plant List search for Eriochrysis]

• Eriochrysis brachypogon (Stapf) Stapf - tropical + southern Africa - from Senegal to Eswatini
• Eriochrysis cayennensis P.Beauv. - tropical Americas from Chiapas to Uruguay
• Eriochrysis × concepcionensis Killeen - Bolivia, Brazil (E. cayennensis × E. laxa)
• Eriochrysis filiformis (Hack.) Filg. - Brazil, Paraguay
• Eriochrysis holcoides (Nees) Kuhlm. - Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
• Eriochrysis laxa Swallen - Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
• Eriochrysis pallida Munro - tropical + southern Africa - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal
• Eriochrysis purpurata (Rendle) Stapf - tropical Africa from Congo Rep to Zimbabwe
• Eriochrysis rangacharii C.E.C.Fisch. - Tamil Nadu
• Eriochrysis villosa Swallen - Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul)
• Eriochrysis warmingiana (Hack.) Kuhlm. - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia

; formerly included

see Miscanthus Saccharum

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• Eriochrysis attenuata - Miscanthus fuscus
• Eriochrysis fusca - Miscanthus fuscus
• Eriochrysis giordaniana - Saccharum narenga
• Eriochrysis longifolia - Saccharum fallax
• Eriochrysis narenga - Saccharum narenga
• Eriochrysis porphyrocoma - Saccharum narenga

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