Hyparrhenia
Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses. Many species are known commonly as thatching grass.
They are mostly native to tropical Africa; some can be found in warmer areas in temperate Eurasia, Australia, and Latin America. These are annual and perennial bunch grasses. The inflorescence branches into twin spikes of paired spikelets.
; SpeciesHyparrhenia anamesa - dry Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province Hyparrhenia andongensis - Angola Hyparrhenia anemopaegma - Zambia Hyparrhenia anthistirioides - dry Africa from Eritrea to Malawi Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis - Ethiopia Hyparrhenia bagirmica - West Africa Hyparrhenia barteri - from Burkina Faso to Malawi Hyparrhenia bracteata - Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, New Guinea, Latin America Hyparrhenia claytonii - Ethiopia Hyparrhenia coleotricha - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen Hyparrhenia collina - dry Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal Hyparrhenia confinis - tropical Africa from Zaïre to Ethiopia Hyparrhenia coriacea - Central African Rep Hyparrhenia cyanescens from Gambia to Zaïre Hyparrhenia cymbaria - Africa, Madagascar, Comoros, India Hyparrhenia dichroa - from Djibouti to KwaZulu-Natal Hyparrhenia diplandra - tropical Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Sulawesi Hyparrhenia dregeana - from Yemen and Eritrea to EswatiniHyparrhenia dybowskii - Zaïre, Central African Rep Hyparrhenia exarmata - from Mali to Kenya Hyparrhenia familiaris - from Guinea to Angola Hyparrhenia figariana - from Nigeria to Tanzania Hyparrhenia filipendula - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal; Madagascar, Yunnan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales Hyparrhenia finitima - from Sierra Leone to Mpumalanga Hyparrhenia formosa - from Ethiopia + Yemen to Malawi Hyparrhenia gazensis - from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal Hyparrhenia glabriuscula - tropical Africa Hyparrhenia gossweileri - Zaïre, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia Hyparrhenia griffithii - Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Vietnam Hyparrhenia hirta - Africa, southern Europe, southwest Asia from France to Cape Province to Pakistan; naturalized in scattered sites in Australia, North + South America Hyparrhenia involucrata - from Burkina Faso to Congo Rep Hyparrhenia madaropoda - from South Sudan to Mozambique Hyparrhenia mobukensis - from Ethiopia to Malawi Hyparrhenia multiplex - Ethiopia + Sudan Hyparrhenia neglecta - Ethiopia Hyparrhenia newtonii - Africa, Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New GuineaHyparrhenia niariensis - from Cameroon to Zambia Hyparrhenia nyassae - tropical Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam Hyparrhenia papillipes - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Yemen, Tanzania, Madagascar Hyparrhenia pilgeriana - from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal Hyparrhenia pilosa - Central African Rep Hyparrhenia poecilotricha - from Guinea to KwaZulu-Natal Hyparrhenia praetermissa - Sulawesi Hyparrhenia quarrei - from Yemen to Nigeria + KwaZulu-Natal Hyparrhenia rudis - tropical Africa, Madagascar Hyparrhenia rufa - tropical - southern Africa; Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Florida, Texas, Latin America ; various islands in Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean Hyparrhenia schimperi - from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Madagascar Hyparrhenia smithiana - from Guinea to Congo Rep Hyparrhenia subplumosa - from Guinea to Zimbabwe Hyparrhenia tamba - from Eritrea to Lesotho Hyparrhenia tuberculata - Ethiopia Hyparrhenia umbrosa - from Nigeria to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros Hyparrhenia variabilis - from Yemen + Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal; Comoros, Madagascar Hyparrhenia violascens - Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon Hyparrhenia welwitschii - from Guinea to Zimbabwe; Comoros Hyparrhenia wombaliensis - Cameroon, Congo Rep, Zaïre
; formerly included
see ''Andropogon Elymandra Exotheca Hyperthelia Parahyparrhenia''