Microstegium nudum(Trin.) A.Camus

WFO wfo-0000879991 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / 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.

Microstegium nudum, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. a bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / 2019-08-05 / obs. 108832066
Microstegium nudum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. b Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15267562
Microstegium nudum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15267565
Microstegium nudum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15267568
Microstegium nudum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15267572
Microstegium nudum, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. f Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15267571

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Microstegium nudum is native: Cape Provinces, DR Congo, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Vietnam, West Himalaya Cape ProvincesDR CongoKwaZulu-NatalMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaUgandaZimbabweChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanTibetAssamBorneoEast HimalayaIndiaJawaMalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSumateraVietnamWest Himalaya KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Microstegium nudum, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 11 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.

  • Eulalia capensis (Hochst.) Steud.
  • Eulalia nuda (Trin.) Kuntze
  • Leptatherum nudum (Trin.) C.Hui Chen, Kuoh & Veldkamp
  • Leptatherum royleanum Nees
  • Microstegium arisanense (Hayata) A.Camus
  • Microstegium capense (Hochst.) A.Camus
  • Microstegium mayebaranum Honda
  • Pollinia arisanensis Hayata
  • Pollinia nuda Trin.
  • Pollinia nuda var. capensis (Hochst.) Hack.
  • Psilopogon capensis Hochst.

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. 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.