Hyparrhenia

Accepted species 57 Documented here 5 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 57 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Hyparrhenia hirta (L.) Stapf 370 documented
Hyparrhenia rufa (Nees) Stapf 51 documented
Hyparrhenia dregeana (Nees) Stapf ex Stent 11 documented
Hyparrhenia schimperi (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson ex Stapf 7 documented
Hyparrhenia cymbaria (L.) Stapf 5 documented
Hyparrhenia newtonii (Hack.) Stapf 1 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia variabilis Stapf 1 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia anamesa Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia andongensis (Rendle) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia anemopaegma Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia anthistirioides (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia arrhenobasis (Hochst. ex Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia bagirmica (Stapf) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia barteri (Hack.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia bracteata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia caboverdeana Rivas Mart., Lousã, J.C.Costa & Maria C.Duarte 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia claytonii S.M.Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia coleotricha (Steud.) Andersson ex Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia collina (Pilg.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia confinis (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia coriacea Mazade 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia cyanescens (Stapf) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia dichroa (Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia diplandra (Hack.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia dybowskii (Franch.) Roberty 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia exarmata (Stapf) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia familiaris (Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia figariana (Chiov.) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia filipendula (Hochst.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia finitima (Hochst.) Andersson ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia formosa Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia gazensis (Rendle) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia glabriuscula (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia gossweileri Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia griffithii Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia involucrata Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia madaropoda Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia mobukensis (Chiov.) Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia multiplex (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia neglecta S.M.Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia niariensis (Franch.) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia nyassae (Rendle) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia papillipes (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Andersson ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia pilgeriana C.E.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia pilosa Mazade 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia poecilotricha (Hack.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia praetermissa Veldkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia quarrei Robyns 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia rudis Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia smithiana (Hook.f.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia subplumosa Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia tamba (Hochst. ex Steud.) Andersson ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia tuberculata Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia umbrosa (Hochst.) Andersson ex Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia violascens (Stapf) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia welwitschii (Rendle) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Hyparrhenia wombaliensis (Vanderyst ex Robyns) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.