Anthephora hermaphrodita(L.) Kuntze

oldfield grass

WFO wfo-0000847945 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Anthephora hermaphrodita, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. a Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-05-27 / obs. 40164647
Anthephora hermaphrodita, photographed by Sula Vanderplank
fig. b Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167799525
Anthephora hermaphrodita, photographed by Sula Vanderplank
fig. c Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167799537
Anthephora hermaphrodita, photographed by Sula Vanderplank
fig. d Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167799549
Anthephora hermaphrodita, photographed by Sula Vanderplank
fig. e Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167799562
Anthephora hermaphrodita, photographed by Sula Vanderplank
fig. f Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167799587

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Anthephora hermaphrodita is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBrazil NortheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela ArubaBermudaCayman Is.GalápagosLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Anthephora hermaphrodita, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bermuda BER
Brazil Northeast BZE
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anthephora cuspidata Andersson
  • Anthephora elegans Schreb.
  • Anthephora elegans var. armata Döll
  • Anthephora elegans var. villosa (Spreng.) Döll
  • Anthephora villosa Spreng.
  • Cenchrus laevigatus Trin.
  • Cenchrus tripsacoides Cav.
  • Cenchrus villosus (Spreng.) Spreng.
  • Colladoa monostachya Pers.
  • Tripsacum hermaphroditum L.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.