Neotropical grasses

The list is based on names from Tropicos for Cajamarca Region, Peru, as that is the location of immediate interest to me.

Para Grass 20
Urochloa mutica
Red Natal Grass 22
Rhynchelytrum repens
Gray Hairgrass 23
Corynephorus canescens
Basket Grass 32
Oplismenus hirtellus
bur bristle grass 33
Setaria adhaerens
Large-spike Bristlegrass 34
Setaria macrostachya
Setaria sphacelata var. sericea 35
Setaria sphacelata sericea
Plains Bristlegrass 36
Setaria vulpiseta
Shama millet 37
Echinochloa colona
Southern Sandbur 44
Cenchrus echinatus
Pennisetum latifolium 45
Cenchrus latifolius
Cup Grass 6
Eriochloa procera
Louisiana Cupgrass 12
Eriochloa punctata
Molasses Grass 6
Melinis minutiflora
Natal grass 46
Melinis repens
Silver bluestem 54
Bothriochloa laguroides
Silver Bluestem 55
Bothriochloa saccharoides
Bothriochloa saccharoides subsp. parvispicula
Bothriochloa saccharoides parvispicula
tanglehead 56
Heteropogon contortus

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