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×Aegilotriticum
nothogenus of plants
Hystrix
genus of plants
Helictochloa
Helictochloa is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and North American plants in the grass family.
Jansenella
thumb|Jansenella griffithiana (C. Muell.) Bor, inflorescence. Jansenella is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.
Coelorachis
Coelorachis is a genus of plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas. , its taxonomic status is confused.
Scrotochloa
Scrotochloa is a genus of Asian, Australian, and Papuasian plants in the grass family.
Henrardia
Henrardia is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.
Bellardiochloa
Bellardiochloa is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia.
Louisiella
Louisiella is a genus of African, Neotropical and tropical plants in the grass family. Earlier the genus was known to comprise only two species i.e. L. fluitans and L. elephantipes. Mr. Shahid Nawaz, an agrostologist at the Blatter Herbarium (BLAT), transferred a species Panicum paludosum Roxb. into Louisiella based on critical study of the morphological features. Now, there are three globally accepted species in the genus.
Pseudoroegneria
Pseudoroegneria is a genus of grasses. It includes 16 species native to temperate and subarctic Eurasia, from Ukraine, Finland, and Greece to Pakistan, Siberia, and northern China, as well as northwestern Africa (Morocco and Algeria) and western North America (Alaska to northeastern Mexico).
Anthenantia
Anthaenantia is a New World genus of plants in the grass family, native to North and South America including the West Indies. The genus name is sometimes spelled Anthenanthia or Anthenantia.
Tarigidia
Tarigidia is a genus of South African and Puerto Rican plants in the grass family.
Walwhalleya
Walwhalleya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae, subfamily Panicoideae and the tribe Paniceae. All members use C3 photosynthesis
Kengyilia
Kengyilia is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family. The genus is named in honor of Yi Li Keng.
Euclasta
genus of plants
Pappostipa
Pappostipa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Narenga
genus of plants
Anthosachne
Anthosachne is a genus of true grasses in the tribe Triticeae. It is primarily Australasian in its distribution, having five species native to New Zealand, 4 to Australia, and 1 to New Guinea. The Australian species are confined to the southern half of the continent.
Zotovia
Zotovia is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to New Zealand (including the Antipodean Islands).
Tripidium
Tripidium is a genus of flowering plant in the Poaceae (or grass) family of plants. The genus is native to southern Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia with the native distribution of genus extending from the western parts of Mediterranean (including Spain and Morocco) and Western Sahara, to the Korean peninsula and the island of New Guinea at the eastern-most extent of its distribution.
Pseudopogonatherum
Pseudopogonatherum is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family.
Trachys
genus of plants
Hesperostipa
Hesperostipa is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as needle-and-thread grass or needlegrass.
Pentapogon
Pentapogon is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Pentapogon quadrifidus. It is native to every Australian State except Queensland, and is also naturalised on the South Island of New Zealand. (A former Pentapogon species, Pentapogon drummondii, is now placed in Calamagrostis as Calamagrostis drummondii.)
Erianthus
genus of plants
Pucciphippsia
genus of plants
Arctopoa
Arctopoa is a genus of grasses. It includes eight species native to subarctic and temperate Asia and northwestern and northeastern North America.
Chasechloa
Chasechloa is a grass genus in the tribe Paniceae (subtribe Boivinellinae), endemic to Madagascar. It was described by French botanist Aimée Antoinette Camus in 1948, who named it in honour of Mary Agnes Chase. Its two species were also classified in the genera Echinolaena and Panicum, but phylogenetic analysis confirmed that they form a distinct lineage.
Thyrsia
genus of plants
Amelichloa
Amelichloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Stiburus
Stiburus is a genus of plants in the family Poaceae. It is native to Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Tetrarrhena
Tetrarrhena is a genus of grasses. It includes six species native to eastern and southern Australia including Tasmania.
Danthoniastrum
Danthoniastrum is a genus of Balkan and Caucasian plants in the grass family.
Canastra
Canastra is a genus of bunchgrass plants in the grass family. Its species are endemic to Brazil.
Macrochloa
Macrochloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Merxmuellera
Merxmuellera is a genus of African grasses named for Hermann Merxmueller, a 20th-century German botanist and taxonomist who was an expert on African flora.
Coleataenia
Coleataenia is a genus of grasses in the tribe Paniceae of the family Poaceae. Until recently this genus was part of Panicum. In 2010, Zuloaga, Scataglini, & Morrone proposed the transfer of the Panicum sections Agrostoidea and Tenera to the new genus, Sorengia. However, that same year, because one of the new species' synonyms was in the valid genus Coleataenia, Robert J. Soreng determined that Sorengia was not a valid name for the new genus and re-published it as Coleataenia.
Stipellula
Stipellula is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Tenaxia
Tenaxia is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.
Australopyrum
Australopyrum is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.
Apochloa
Apochloa is a genus of grasses. It includes 15 species native to Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela.
Pseudobromus
Pseudobromus is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Kellochloa
Kellochloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Patis
genus of plants
Molineriella
Molineriella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Lachnagrostis
thumb|The type species; Lachnagrostis filiformis Lachnagrostis is a genus of African, Australian, Pacific Island, and South American plants in the grass family. They are often treated as members of genus Agrostis.
Hyalopoa
Hyalopoa is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.
Megathyrsus
Megathyrsus is a genus of plants in the family Poaceae.
Capeochloa
Capeochloa is a genus of South African plants in the grass family. It contains three species of perennial grasses endemic to the Cape Provinces.
Disakisperma
Disakisperma is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to North and South America, Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Hookerochloa
Hookerochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae.
Saugetia
Saugetia is a genus of West Indian plants in the grass family.
Miscanthidium
Miscanthidium is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family, Poaceae. It includes two species native to eastern and southern Africa. Miscanthidium junceum – southern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa Miscanthidium violaceum – Uganda and Kenya to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia
Micrachne
Micrachne is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
Poidium
Poidium is a genus of grasses. It includes eight species native to South America, including Colombia, Bolivia, southern and southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.
Piptatheropsis
Piptatheropsis is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Microbriza
Microbriza is a genus of grasses. It includes two species native to southern Brazil. Microbriza brachychaete Microbriza poomorpha