Tricholaena monachne(Trin.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb.

WFO wfo-0000904245 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Ricus Nel
fig. a Ricus Nel, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-04 / obs. 194631741
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Wynand Uys
fig. b Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111347973
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. c Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199392210
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. d Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199446035
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Ricus Nel
fig. e Ricus Nel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194631684
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. f bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / obs. 108329694
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. g Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199392252
Tricholaena monachne, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. h Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199445851

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Tricholaena monachne is native: Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, DR Congo, Eswatini, Free State, Ghana, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Namibia, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan AngolaBotswanaCape ProvincesCaprivi StripDR CongoEswatiniFree StateGhanaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaTogoZambiaZimbabwePakistan Mozambique Channel Is.Réunion
Native distribution of Tricholaena monachne, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Cape Provinces CPP
Caprivi Strip CPV
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
Ghana GHA
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Mozambique Channel Is. MCI
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 26 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.

  • Aira bicolor Schumach.
  • Eremochlamys arenaria Peter
  • Eremochlamys littoralis Peter
  • Melinis glabra (Stapf) Hack.
  • Melinis monachme (Trin.) Pilg.
  • Melinis monachne var. minor (Hack.) Pilg.
  • Melinis trichotoma Mez
  • Milium roseum Spreng.
  • Panicum coloratum Thouars ex Spreng.
  • Panicum fraudulentum Steud.
  • Panicum gracillimum K.Schum.
  • Panicum madagascariense Spreng.
  • Panicum madagascariense var. brevispiculum Rendle
  • Panicum madagascariense var. minus Hack.
  • Panicum monachne Trin.
  • Panicum roseum Willd. ex Spreng.
  • Tricholaena arenaria var. semiglabra Hack.
  • Tricholaena bicolor (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb.
  • Tricholaena delicatula Stapf & C.E.Hubb.
  • Tricholaena glabra Stapf
  • Tricholaena madagascaricnsis (Spreng.) Mez ex Pilg.
  • Tricholaena madagascariensis (Spreng.) Mez ex Pilg.
  • Tricholaena monachne var. annua J.G.Anderson
  • Tricholaena monachne var. monachne

and 2 more.

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.