Steinchisma

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Steinchisma hians 157045745.jpg

|image_caption = Steinchisma hians

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Steinchisma

|authority = Raf.

|type_species = Steinchisma hians

|type_species_authority = (Elliott) Nash.

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40004795 Tropicos, Steinchisma Raf.][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=444579 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• Panicum subg. Steinchisma (Raf.) Zuloaga
• Cliffordiochloa B.K.Simon
• Fasciculochloa B.K.Simon & C.M.Weiller

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Steinchisma is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to the Americas but a few of them naturalized in Africa.Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1830. Bulletin Botanique ou Collection de Notices Originales et d'Extraits des Ouvrages Botaniques. Geneve, Switzerland 1: 220Simon, B. K. 1999. Steinchisma hians (Elliott) Nash, the correct name for Fasciculochloa sparshottiorum B.K. Simon & C.M. Weiller. Austrobaileya 5(3): 585–586.Simon, B. K. 2003. Steinchisma laxa (Sw.) Zuloaga, the correct name for Cliffordiochloa parvispiculata B.K. Simon. Austrobaileya 6(3): 561–562.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27997239#page/641/mode/1up Zuloaga, F. O., O. Morrone, A. S. Vega & L. M. Giussani. 1998. Revisión y análisis cladístico de Steinchisma (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(4): 631–656][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00605.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora] in Spanish[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Steinchisma Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]

; Species

• Steinchisma cupreum (Hitchc. & Chase) W.V.Br. - Durango, Jalisco, Zacatecas, México State, Puebla, Veracruz, Querétaro
• Steinchisma decipiens (Nees ex Trin.) W.V.Br. - Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
• Steinchisma exiguiflorum (Griseb.) W.V.Br. - Bahamas, Greater Antilles
• Steinchisma hians (Elliott) Nash - southeastern + south-central United States (New Mexico to Virginia); Latin America (Tamaulipas to Uruguay); naturalized in KwaZulu-Natal
• Steinchisma laxum (Sw.) Zuloaga - from Florida + Durango to Argentina incl. Galápagos; naturalized in tropical West Africa, Assam, Ascension Island
• Steinchisma spathellosum (Döll) Renvoize - Brazil (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sol, Santa Catarina, São Paulo), Paraguay (Alto Paraná, Cordillera, Paraguarí), Argentina (Buenos Aires, D.F., Misiones, Entre Ríos)
• Steinchisma stenophyllum (Hack.) Zuloaga & Morrone - Colombia, Venezuela (Amazonas), Suriname, Brazil (Bahia, Pará, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso)