Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 93 botanical countries
Not drawn on the map: Kazan-retto, Ogasawara-shoto, Cocos (Keeling) Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.
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.
Flowering 91 in flower of 99 examined
Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Eragrostis tenella observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 91 of 99 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 32 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.
- Eragrostis amabilis f. normalis Kuntze
- Eragrostis amabilis f. varia Kuntze
- Eragrostis amabilis var. breviculmis Stapf
- Eragrostis amabilis var. duriuscula K.Schum.
- Eragrostis amabilis var. insularis (C.E.Hubb.) P.Umam. & P.Daniel
- Eragrostis amabilis var. peramangalamensis P.Umam. & P.Daniel
- Eragrostis amabilis var. plumosa (Retz.) E.G.Camus & A.Camus
- Eragrostis amabilis var. tenella (L.) A.Camus
- Eragrostis breviculmis H.Lév.
- Eragrostis caudata Nees ex Steud.
- Eragrostis ciliaris var. patens Chapm. ex Beal
- Eragrostis confinis Nees ex Steud.
- Eragrostis despiciens (Link) Schult.
- Eragrostis elytroblephara Steud.
- Eragrostis laxa Baker
- Eragrostis mauritii Steud.
- Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link
- Eragrostis taffzagra Steud.
- Eragrostis tenella var. breviglumis Stapf
- Eragrostis tenella var. insularis C.E.Hubb.
- Eragrostis tenella var. koenigii Kuntze
- Eragrostis tenella var. plumosa (Retz.) Stapf
- Eragrostis tenella var. purpurea Bojer
- Megastachya tenella (L.) Bojer
and 8 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.
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