Skip to content
Category

Poaceae genera

page 4
Echinopogon
Echinopogon is a genus of grasses native to Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Zealand. They are known commonly as hedgehog grasses.
Coelachne
thumb|Coelachne minuta Bor Coelachne is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.
Tetrapogon
Tetrapogon is a genus of grasses.
Pleuropogon
Pleuropogon is a genus of Arctic and North American plants in the grass family known generally as semaphore grass.
Danthoniopsis
Danthoniopsis is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.
Elytrophorus
Elytrophorus is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.
Neurachne
Neurachne, commonly called mulga grass, is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family.
Pseudoraphis
Pseudoraphis is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family, commonly known as mudgrasses.
Zizaniopsis
Zizaniopsis is a genus of plants in the grass family, Poaceae, native to North and South America.
Anthephora
Anthephora is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to southwest Asia, Africa, the Americas, and various islands.
Eulaliopsis
Eulaliopsis is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.
Chikusichloa
Chikusichloa is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.
Tripsacum
Tripsacum (adjective: tripsacoid} is a genus of plants in the grass family and native to the Western Hemisphere. Gamagrass is a common name for plants in this genus.
Hubbardia
Hubbardia is a genus in the grass family that is endemic to India. It is the only genus in the tribe Hubbardieae of the subfamily Micrairoideae.
Desmazeria
Desmazeria is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family, related to Catapodium.
Loudetia
Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.
Hymenachne
Hymenachne, synonym Dallwatsonia, is a genus of widespread wetland plants in the grass family Poaceae. They are commonly known as marsh grasses. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. A species from the Americas, H. amplexicaulis, is well known in other parts of the world as an introduced and invasive species.
Garnotia
Garnotia is a genus of Asian, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family. Several of the species are native to Sri Lanka and southern India.
Ophiuros
Ophiuros is a genus of Asia, Australian, and East African plants in the grass family.
Zenkeria
genus of plants
Triniochloa
Triniochloa is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.
Capillipedium
Capillipedium (common name scented-tops) is a genus of plants in the grass family. They are native to Africa, Asia, Australia, and certain islands in the Western Pacific.
Dregeochloa
Dregeochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Polytoca
Polytoca is a genus of Indomalayan and Australasian plants in the grass family.
Tristachya
Tristachya (common name trident grasses) is a genus of African and Latin American plants in tribe Tristachyideae within the grass family.
Willkommia
Willkommia is a genus of plants in the grass family. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with species native to Southern Africa, South America, and the United States.
Ampelodesmos
Ampelodesmos is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family, which is known by the common names stramma, Mauritania grass, rope grass, and dis(s) grass. It is classified in its own tribe Ampelodesmeae within the grass subfamily Pooideae.
Echinolaena
Echinolaena is a genus of plants in tribe Paspaleae of the grass family, native to the New World tropics. It includes only two species after the referral of former members to the related genera Ichnanthus, Oedochloa and the more distant Chasechloa (tribe Paniceae) in a 2015 revision.
Pharus
genus of plants
Uniola
Uniola is a genus of New World plants in the grass family.
Anadelphia
Anadelphia is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Leptaspis
Leptaspis is a genus of Paleotropical plants in the grass family, native to Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and a few islands of the western Pacific.
Jouvea
Jouvea is a Latin American genus of coastal plants in the grass family. It grows on mud flats and coastal sand dunes from northern Mexico to Ecuador.
Pappophorum
Pappophorum is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to the Western Hemisphere. Members of the genus are commonly known as pappusgrass.
Centotheca
Centotheca is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family.
Crinipes
Crinipes is a genus of plants in the Poaceae−grass family native to central Africa.
Distichlis
Distichlis is a genus of American and Australian plants in the grass family. Plants in this genus are dioecious, have rhizomes or stolons, and have conspicuously distichous leaves.
Ancistrachne
Ancistrachne is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Schmidtia
Schmidtia is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.
Thuarea
Thuarea is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Zeugites
Zeugites is a genus of flowering plants in the family Poaceae. Its species are native to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Eragrostiella
Eragrostiella is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.
Austrostipa
Austrostipa is a primarily Australian genus of plants in the grass family, commonly called speargrass.
Zonotriche
thumb | right | alt=Zonotriche decora | Zonotriche decora Zonotriche is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Loudetiopsis
Loudetiopsis is a genus of African and South American plants in the grass family.
Calamovilfa
Calamovilfa is a genus of North American plants in the grass family native to the United States and Canada.
Pentameris
Pentameris is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Africa, with a few species in Yemen and on certain islands in the Indian Ocean.
Whiteochloa
Whiteochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Dichelachne
Dichelachne is a genus of Australian, Indonesian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. They are known commonly as plumegrasses.
Gymnopogon
Gymnopogon (skeletongrass) is a genus of American and Southeast Asian plants in the grass family.
Apocopis
Apocopis is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family, widespread in China, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia, including several species endemic to Myanmar (Burma).
Urelytrum
Urelytrum is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Chasmopodium
Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Parahyparrhenia
thumb|Parahyparrhenia bellariensis thumb|Parahyparrhenia khannae in its natural habitats thumb|Parahyparrhenia bellariensis (Hack.) Clayton in the crevices of Quartzite rocks. Parahyparrhenia is a genus of Afro-Asian plants in the grass family. Globally, the genus comprises seven species. Two species are known to occur in India, where they are narrow endemic. The species show disjunct distribution in Africa and Asia. Parahyparrhenia bellariensis (Hack.) Clayton an extremely rare grass which was presumed extinct was rediscovered after 184 years from Andhra Pradesh, South India. Mr. Shahid Nawaz
Xerochloa
Xerochloa is a genus of Australian and Southeast Asian plants in the grass family.
Bhidea
thumb|Bhidea burnsiana Bor: Close view of paired spikelets thumb|Bhidea fischeri Sreek. & B. V. Shetty thumb|Bhidea fischeri Sreek. & B. V. Shetty from open low elevation grassland in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state, India. thumb|Collecting Bhidea fischeri Sreek. & B. V. Shetty from open grassland, Konkan. Bhidea is a genus of Indian plants in the grass family.
Rostraria
Rostraria is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Eurasia and North Africa with one species native to South America. Hairgrass is a common name.
Antinoria
Antinoria is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family.
Hilaria
genus of plants
Hyperthelia
Hyperthelia is a genus of African plants in the grass family.