title: Tricholaena
text: # Tricholaena
  
  Tricholaena is a genus of Asian, African, and Italian plants in the grass family.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Tricholaena capensis (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Nees - Free State, Namibia, Cape Province
  * Tricholaena monachne (Trin.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - drier parts of Africa from Kenya to Cape Province; also Ghana, Togo, Madagascar, Réunion, Pakistan
  * Tricholaena teneriffae (L.f.) Link - drier parts of Africa from Morocco to Egypt to Tanzania; Canary Islands; Cape Verde, Arabian Peninsula, Middle East, India, Pakistan, Calabria, Sicily
  * Tricholaena vestita (Balf.f.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - Socotra
  
  ## formerly included
  
  see Brachiaria Digitaria Eriachne Melinis Miscanthus Paspalum Saccharum
  
  * Tricholaena abbreviata - Brachiaria serrata
  * Tricholaena amethystea - Melinis amethystea
  * Tricholaena atropurpurea - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena bellespicata - Melinis longiseta subsp. bellespicata
  * Tricholaena brevipila - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena busseana - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena chevalieri - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena chinensis - Eriachne pallescens
  * Tricholaena congoensis - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena dregeana - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena filifolia - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena fragilis - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena fusca - Miscanthus fuscus
  * Tricholaena grandiflora - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena grandiflora var. collina - Melinis repens subsp. repens
  * Tricholaena grandiflora var. glabrescens - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena insularis - Digitaria insularis
  * Tricholaena longiseta - Melinis longiseta
  * Tricholaena maroccana - Melinis repens subsp. maroccana
  * Tricholaena melinioides - Melinis longiseta
  * Tricholaena microstachya - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena microstachya var. albicoma - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena minutiflora - Melinis longiseta
  * Tricholaena monachyron - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena nerviglumis - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena obtecta - Paspalum humboldtianum
  * Tricholaena repens - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena rhodesiana - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena rosea - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena ruficoma - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena rupicola - Melinis rupicola
  * Tricholaena saccharoides - Digitaria insularis
  * Tricholaena scabrida - Melinis scabrida
  * Tricholaena semidecumbens - Saccharum spontaneum
  * Tricholaena setifolia - Melinis nerviglumis
  * Tricholaena sphacelata - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena tanatricha - Melinis tanatricha
  * Tricholaena tonsa - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena tuberculosa - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena uniglumis - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena villosa - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  * Tricholaena violacea - Melinis repens
  * Tricholaena wightii - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora
  