Aristida: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Aristida
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Aristida
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aristida
Aristida is a very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family. Aristida is distinguished by having three awns (bristles) on each lemma of each floret. The genus includes about 300 species found worldwide, often in arid warm regions. This genus is among those colloquially called three-awns wiregrasses, speargrasses and needlegrasses. The name Aristida is derived from the Latin "arista", meaning "awn".
They are characteristic of semiarid grassland. The Wiregrass Region of North America is named for A. stricta. Other locales where this genus is an important component of the ecosystem include the Carolina Bays, the sandhills of the Carolinas, and elsewhere, Mulga scrub in Australia, and the xeric grasslands around Lake Turkana in Africa. Local increases in the abundance of wiregrasses is a good indicator of overgrazing, as livestock avoid them.
...Aristida in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Steekgrasse
- English
- wiregrass
- Portuguese
- Barbas-de-Bode
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Aristida abnormis
- Aristida acuta
- Aristida adscensionis
- Aristida aequiglumis
- Aristida anaclasta
- Aristida anthoxanthoides
- Aristida antoniana
- Aristida appressa
- Aristida arizonica
- Aristida basiramea
- Aristida behriana
- Aristida benthamii
- Aristida beyrichiana
- Aristida bipartita
- Aristida blakei
- Aristida boninensis
- Aristida brainii
- Aristida brittonorum
- Aristida calcicola
- Aristida californica
- Aristida calycina
- Aristida canescens
- Aristida capillacea
- Aristida capillifolia
- Aristida caput-medusae
- Aristida chaseae
- Aristida chiclayensis
- Aristida chinensis
- Aristida circinalis
- Aristida condensata
- Aristida congesta
- Aristida contorta
- Aristida culionensis
- Aristida cumingiana
- Aristida curtissii
- Aristida dasydesmis
- Aristida desmantha
- Aristida dewinteri
- Aristida dichotoma
- Aristida diffusa
- Aristida divaricata
- Aristida divulsa
- Aristida elliptica
- Aristida eludens
- Aristida engleri
- Aristida exserta
- Aristida floridana
- Aristida funiculata
- Aristida geminiflora
- Aristida gibbosa
- Aristida glauca
- Aristida gracilipes
- Aristida guayllabambensis
- Aristida gypsophila
- Aristida gyrans
- Aristida hamulosa
- Aristida havardii
- Aristida hintonii
- Aristida hispidula
- Aristida hitchcockiana
- Aristida holathera
- Aristida hordeacea
- Aristida hubbardiana
- Aristida humidicola
- Aristida hygrometrica
- Aristida hystrix
- Aristida inaequiglumis
- Aristida jaliscana
- Aristida jerichoensis
- Aristida jorullensis
- Aristida jubata
- Aristida junciformis
- Aristida kelleri
- Aristida kenyensis
- Aristida kerstingii
- Aristida laevis
- Aristida lanosa
- Aristida latifolia
- Aristida laxa
- Aristida leptopoda
- Aristida leucophaea
- Aristida liebmannii
- Aristida lignosa
- Aristida longespica
- Aristida longifolia
- Aristida longiseta
- Aristida macroclada
- Aristida mendocina
- Aristida meraukensis
- Aristida meridionalis
- Aristida mexicana
- Aristida minutiflora
- Aristida mohrii
- Aristida mollissima
- Aristida monticola
- Aristida multiramea
- Aristida murina
- Aristida mutabilis
- Aristida necopina
- Aristida neglecta
- Aristida nicorae
- Aristida niederleinii
- Aristida nitidula
- Aristida novae-caledoniae
- Aristida oligantha
- Aristida pallens
- Aristida palustris
- Aristida pansa
- Aristida papuana
- Aristida parvula
- Aristida patula
- Aristida pedroensis
- Aristida personata
- Aristida petersonii
- Aristida pilgeri
- Aristida platychaeta
- Aristida portoricensis
- Aristida pruinosa
- Aristida pubescens
- Aristida purpurascens
- Aristida purpurea
- Aristida purpusiana
- Aristida queenslandica
- Aristida ramosa
- Aristida ramosissima
- Aristida recta
- Aristida recurvata
- Aristida redacta
- Aristida refracta
- Aristida repens
- Aristida rhiniochloa
- Aristida rhizomophora
- Aristida riparia
- Aristida rosei
- Aristida rufescens
- Aristida sayapensis
- Aristida scabrivalvis
- Aristida schiedeana
- Aristida schultzii
- Aristida sciurus
- Aristida scribneriana
- Aristida setacea
- Aristida setifolia
- Aristida sieberiana
- Aristida similis
- Aristida simpliciflora
- Aristida spanospicula
- Aristida spectabilis
- Aristida spegazzinii
- Aristida spiciformis
- Aristida spuria
- Aristida stenostachya
- Aristida stipitata
- Aristida stipoides
- Aristida stocksii
- Aristida stricta
- Aristida subspicata
- Aristida subulata
- Aristida superpendens
- Aristida takeoi
- Aristida tarapotana
- Aristida tenuifolia
- Aristida tenuissima
- Aristida teretifolia
- Aristida ternipes
- Aristida torta
- Aristida trachyantha
- Aristida transvaalensis
- Aristida tuberculosa
- Aristida tuitensis
- Aristida uruguayensis
- Aristida utilis
- Aristida vagans
- Aristida vaginata
- Aristida valida
- Aristida vestita
- Aristida vexativa
- Aristida victoriana
- Aristida vilfifolia
- Aristida villosa
- Aristida virgata
- Aristida warburgii
- Aristida wildii
- Aristida wrightii































































































































































