Poaceae
(grasses)

Preferred Common Name

• grasses

Other Scientific Names

• Gramineae

International Common Names

• English: cereals
• Spanish: gramineas; yerbas
• French: céréales; graminées
• Portuguese: gramineas

Local Common Names

• Germany: Graeser

EPPO code

• GGGGG (Gramineae)

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Monocotyledonae
•                     Order: Cyperales
•                         Family: Poaceae

Major host of:

Acarus siro (flour mite); Aeneolamia contigua (spotted spittlebug of pastures); Aeneolamia flavilatera (yellow-sided froghopper); Aeneolamia lepidior; Aeneolamia varia (froghopper); Agriotes lineatus (wireworm); Agriotes obscurus (dusky wire worm); Agromyza parvicornis (corn blotch leaf miner); Amphimallon majale (European chafer); Anicla infecta; Antonina graminis (rhodes grass scale); Aspidiella sacchari (brown sugarcane scale); Aulocara elliotti (Elliott grasshopper); Balclutha rubrostriata; Barley yellow dwarf viruses (barley yellow dwarf); bird pests; Blissus insularis (southern chinch bug); Brevennia rehi (rice mealybug); Bucrates capitata (gray katydid grasshopper); Carduus nutans (nodding thistle); Carolinaia cyperi; Cephus cinctus (wheat stem sawfly); Cerebella andropogonis; Cerodontha denticornis (grass sheath miner); Chilo orichalcociliellus (coastal stalk borer); Chilo suppressalis (striped rice stem borer); Chlorotettix fraterculus; Claviceps paspali; Claviceps purpurea (ergot); Cnephasia longana (omnivorous leaf-tier); Cochliobolus lunatus (head mould of grasses, rice and sorghum); Cochliobolus ravenelii (false smut); Collaria oleosa; Colletotrichum graminicola (red stalk rot of cereals); Conocephalus cinereus (longhorned green pasture grasshopper); Conocephalus fasciatus (slender meadow katydid); Criconemella (ring nematode); Crupina vulgaris (bearded creeper); Cynomys (prairie dog); Cynosurus mottle virus; Darna ochracea; Desmodium incanum (creeping beggerweed); Diabrotica barberi (northern corn rootworm); Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (western corn rootworm); Diatraea centrella (stalk borer of sugarcane and rice); Diatraea grandiosella (southwestern corn borer); Dichroplus elongatus; Draeculacephala mollipes (sharpshooter); Drechslera gigantea (eyespot); Dysmicoccus brevipes (pineapple mealybug); Elymus repens (quackgrass); Globisporangium irregulare (dieback: carrot); Gonocephalum (false wireworm); Gryllus assimilis (field cricket); Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (grassworm); Hoplolaimus seinhorsti (lance nematode); Hortensia similis (common green sugarcane leafhopper); Hylephila phyleus (rice skipper); Hysteroneura setariae (rusty plum aphid); Lantana camara (lantana); Latheticus oryzae (longheaded flour beetle); Leptocorisa acuta (rice seed bug); Leucania incognita; Ligyrus cuniculus (rough black hard-back (PR)); Limothrips cerealium (corn, thrips); Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus (rice water weevil); Listronotus bonariensis (Argentine stem weevil); Maize streak virus (streak disease of maize); Marasmia trapezalis (maize webworm); Meloidogyne graminicola (rice root knot nematode); Merlinius brevidens; Metopolophium dirhodum (rose-grass aphid); Metopolophium festucae (fescue aphid); Mocis latipes (grass looper); Mythimna inconspicua; Mythimna latiuscula; Mythimna unipuncta (rice armyworm); Nassella trichotoma (serrated tussock grass); Neoconocephalus maxillosus (longhorned grasshopper); Neoconocephalus triops (broad-tipped cone-head katydid); Odonaspis ruthae (bermuda-grass scale); Oebalus pugnax (rice stinkbug); Oliarus maidis; Oligonychus pratensis (spider mite); Opuntia dillenii (prickly pear); Opuntia triacantha (prickly pear); Orphulella punctata; Ostrinia nubilalis (European maize borer); Pangola stunt virus (Pangola stunt); Panoquina sylvicola; Paromius longulus; Passalora fusimaculans; Penicillium viridicatum; Peregrinus maidis (corn planthopper); Phalera combusta; Phenacoccus hordei; Platysenta concisa; Polyphylla fullo (fuller); Pratylenchus (root lesion nematode); Prosopis glandulosa (honey mesquite); Prosopis juliflora (mesquite); Prosopis pallida (mesquite); Prosopis velutina (velvet mesquite); Protalebrella brasiliensis; Puccinia chaetochloae; Puccinia cynodontis (rust of grasses); Puccinia oahuensis (pangola rust); Puccinia polysora (American corn rust); Puccinia purpurea (rust (of grasses, sorghum)); Puccinia zoysiae (zoysia grass rust); Pythium graminicola (seedling blight of grasses); Pythium vexans (damping off); Rotylenchulus (reniform nematode); Scapteriscus (mole crickets); Scapteriscus didactylus (Puerto Rican mole cricket); Schistocerca americana (south American locust); Schistocerca nitens (gray bird grasshopper); Sclerotinia borealis (snow blight of grass); Setosphaeria rostrata (leaf spot of grasses); Sida acuta (sida); Sigmodon hispidus (hispid cotton rat); Sipha maydis; Sogatella furcifera (white-backed planthopper); Sonchus arvensis (perennial sowthistle); Sphingonotus haitensis; Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm); Spodoptera littoralis (cotton leafworm); Spodoptera litura (taro caterpillar); Spodoptera mauritia (paddy swarming caterpillar); Spodoptera mauritia acronyctoides (armyworm); Stenopola dorsalis; Striga asiatica (witch weed); Taraxacum officinale complex (dandelion); Tenebrio molitor (European meal worm); Tenebroides mauritanicus (cadelle); Tetraneura nigriabdominalis (rice root aphid); Thanatephorus cucumeris (many names, depending on host); Tipula oleracea (common crane fly); Tipula paludosa (European crane fly); Tylenchorhynchus annulatus (stunt nematode); Tylenchorhynchus claytoni (stunt nematode); Ustilago hypodytes (stem: grasses smut); Ventenata dubia (North Africa grass); Xanthium (Cocklebur); Zonocerus variegatus (variegated grasshopper); Zulia charon (spittle bug)

Minor host of:

Acrida cinerea; Anthemis cotula (dog fennel); Belonolaimus longicaudatus (sting nematode); Cicadulina mbila (maize leafhopper); Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle); Colletotrichum sublineolum (sorghum anthracnose); Cornu aspersum (common garden snail); Fumaria officinalis (common fumitory); Fusarium culmorum (culm rot: cereals); Gryllotalpa africana (african mole cricket); Haematonectria haematococca (dry rot of potato); Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm); Heterodera avenae (cereal cyst eelworm); Kakatoe (cockatoo); Melanaphis pyraria; Melanoplus sanguinipes (lesser migratory grasshopper); Melanotus communis (common wireworm); Onopordum acanthium (scotch thistle); Osmilia flavolineata; Parapoynx stagnalis (rice case bearer); Phenacoccus solani; Philaenus spumarius (meadow froghopper); Platynota stultana (omnivorous leaf roller); Pratylenchus brachyurus (root-lesion nematode); Pyrilla perpusilla (sugarcane planthopper); Rhopalosiphum maidis (green corn aphid); Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominalis (rice root aphid); Rosellinia necatrix (dematophora root rot); Saccharicoccus sacchari (grey sugarcane mealybug); Spodoptera eridania (southern armyworm); Tilletia controversa (dwarf bunt of wheat); Tilletia tritici (wheat bunt); Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (rice leaf blight); Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola (bacterial leaf streak of rice); Xestia c-nigrum (spotted cutworm)

Wild host of:

Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae (bacterial leaf blight); Anthonomus grandis (Mexican cotton boll weevil); Blumeria graminis (powdery mildew of grasses and cereals); Chilo auricilius (gold-fringed rice borer); Chilo partellus (spotted stem borer); Chilo polychrysus (dark-headed striped borer); Chlorops oryzae (rice stem maggot); Cofana spectra (white leafhopper); Cryptostegia grandiflora (rubber vine); Diatraea saccharalis (sugarcane stalk borer); Diuraphis noxia (Russian wheat aphid); Gonocephalum macleayi (southern false wireworm); Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus (spiral nematode); Heterodera zeae (corn cyst nematode); Hirschmanniella spinicaudata (rice root nematode); Hydrellia griseola (rice leaf miner); Hymenula cerealis (Cephalosporium stripe); Lepidiota stigma (sugarcane white grub); Locusta migratoria (migratory locust); Monographella nivalis (foot rot of cereals); Mus musculus domesticus (mouse); Mycosphaerella graminicola (Septoria tritici blotch); Noctua pronuba (common yellow underwing moth); Nomadacris septemfasciata (red locust); Ostrinia furnacalis (Asian corn borer); Penthaleus major (blue oat mite); Phaenacantha saccharicida (sugarcane red bug); Polymyxa graminis (vector of streak mosaic: wheat); Pratylenchus thornei; Pratylenchus zeae (root lesion nematode); Pyrenophora teres (net blotch); Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (leaf spot of wheat); Rhabdoscelus obscurus (sugarcane weevil borer); Rhamphicarpa fistulosa; Rumex acetosella (sheep's sorrel); Sesamia calamistis (African pink stem borer); Sesamia cretica (greater sugarcane borer); Sesamia nonagrioides (Mediterranean corn stalk borer); Sitobion avenae (wheat aphid); Sitobion miscanthi (indian grain aphid); Sitodiplosis mosellana (orange wheat blossom midge); Spodoptera exempta (black armyworm); Spodoptera exigua (beet armyworm); Sugarcane mosaic virus (sugarcane mosaic); sugarcane Ramu stunt disease (Ramu stunt disease); Xiphinema (dagger nematode); Xylella fastidiosa (Pierce's disease of grapevines); Zabrus tenebrioides (corn ground beetle); Zygotylenchus guevarai

Associated with (not a host):

Acremonium lolii; Archytas marmoratus; Atacta brasiliensis; Campsomeris dorsata; Dociostaurus maroccanus (Moroccan locust); Eucelatoria armigera; Euphorocera claripennis; Euphorocera floridensis; Gliocladium catenulatum; Meloidogyne chitwoodi (columbia root-knot nematode); Neodusmetia sangwani; Penicillium aurantiogriseum (crown rot of asparagus); Sarocladium strictum (acremonium wilt); Timberlakia europaea; Winthemia quadripustulata (tachina, red-tailed)

Host of (source - data mining):

Abacarus hystrix (grain rust mite); Aconurella prolixa; Acremonium typhinum (choke disease: grasses); Acromyrmex landolti; Adoryphorus couloni (cockchafer, red headed); Ageneotettix deorum; Aiolopus strepens; Amphipoea fucosa; Apamea devastatrix; Apamea lateritia; Apamea ophiogramma; Apamea sordens (rustic shoulder, knot moth); Arphia conspersa; Balclutha hortensis; Brome mosaic virus; Carneocephala flaviceps (leafhopper, yellowheaded); Carneocephala reticulata; Chirothrips manicatus; Chloris striate mosaic virus; Chorthippus albomarginatus; Chorthippus brunneus; Chorthippus longicornis; Chromatomyia fuscula; Cicadulina arachidis; Cicadulina bipunctata (sorghum, jassid); Cicadulina similis; Cicadulina storeyi; Cochliobolus cynodontis (browning: Bermuda grass); Collaria scenica; Ctenucha virginica; Curvularia australiensis (leaf blight of grasses); Dalbulus elimatus; Dalbulus gelbus; Dalbulus guevarai; Dalbulus quinquenotatus; Dalbulus tripsacoides; Deois flavopicta (demerara, froghopper); Deois incompleta; Diatraea indigenella; Diatraea lineolata (neotropical corn stalk borer); Dichroplus pratensis; Eoreuma loftini; Eoreuma morbidella; Eurygaster integriceps (sunn pest); Forda marginata; Frankliniella tenuicornis; Fusarium oxysporum (basal rot); Gastrimargus musicus; Geomyza tripunctata; Gibberella intricans (damping-off of safflower); Gloeotinia granigena (blind seed disease: grasses); Glyphipterix simpliciella; Graminella nigrifrons (blackfaced leafhopper); Hemileuca oliviae (rangeland, caterpillar); Heterodera trifolii (eelworm, Clover cyst); Hieroglyphus nigrorepletus; Hipparchia semele; Hodotermes mossambicus (harvester, termite); Hoplolaimus galeatus; Inopus rubriceps (Australian soldier fly); Irbisia brachycera; Irbisia pacifica; Javesella pellucida; Labops hesperius (black grass bug); Laelia coenosa; Laetisaria fuciformis (pink patch: turf); Leptispa pygmaea (rice leaf beetle); Leptopterna dolabrata; Lissorhoptrus brevirostris; Macrosteles quadrilineatus (aster leafhopper); Mahanarva fimbriolata; Melanoplus bivittatus (twostriped grasshopper); Melanoplus femurrubrum (redlegged grasshopper); Melanoplus packardii (packard grasshopper); Messor barbarus (harvster, ant); Mythimna convecta (armyworm, common); Myzus obtusirostris; Nephotettix malayanus; Nephotettix parvus; Nesoclutha pallida; Oedaleus abruptus; Oscinella hortensis; Oscinella pusilla; Oscinella vastator; Pachynematus clitellatus; Papaipema nebris (stalk borer); Periconia macrospinosa; Persectania ewingii (barley, grub); Phaulacridium vittatum (grasshopper, wingless); Phoetaliotes nebrascensis; Phyllophaga fusca (northern June beetle); Polyphylla comes; Pseudomonas syringae (bacterial blast); Puccinia schedonnardi (leaf cotton rust); Scapteriscus borellii (southern mole cricket); Scapteriscus vicinus (changa); Sipha elegans; Sorhoanus pascuellus; Sphenophorus inaequalis; Sphenophorus minimus; Sphenophorus parvulus (bluegrass billbug); Sphenophorus venatus (hunting billbug); Sphenophorus venatus vestitus; Spodoptera cilium (caterpillar, lawn); Stirellus bicolor; Tetramesa eximia; Toya propinqua; Trigonotylus coelestialium (rice, leafbug); Trinervitermes geminatus; Typhula incarnata (snow blight: cereals); Typhula ishikariensis (speckled: cereals snow mould); Xanthomonas campestris (black rot of crucifers); Xanthomonas translucens pv. graminis (bacterial: grasses wilt); Zulia colombiana; Zulia entreriana; Zygina zealandica (yellow jassid); Zyginidia pullula