''Sartidia'' is a genus of Southern African and Madagascan plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

. It was split from '' Aristida'' in 1963 by South African botanist

Bernard de Winter Bernard de Winter (31 July 1924 - 8 May 2017 Pretoria) was a South African botanist who from 1973 was Director of the Botanical Research Institute, which later became the National Botanical Institute and then the South African National Biodivers ...

and contains six known species, of which '' Sartidia perrieri'' is considered

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

. Their natural habitats are warm, semi-arid savanna and dry forest at altitudes of where rainfall ranges from 250 to 1,500 mm per year. They are perennial grasses with inflorescence in a

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

. Other than most species in subfamily Aristidoideae, ''Sartidia'' species use the ancestral C photosynthetic pathway. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that ''Sartidia'' is the sister genus of ''

Stipagrostis ''Stipagrostis'' is a genus of African, Asian, and Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List ...

'', an important C genus from Africa and Southwest Asia. ; Species * ''

Sartidia angolensis ''Sartidia'' is a genus of Southern African and Madagascan plants in the grass family. It was split from '' Aristida'' in 1963 by South African botanist Bernard de Winter and contains six known species, of which '' Sartidia perrieri'' is consi ...

'' (C.E.Hubb.) De Winter – Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia * '' Sartidia dewinteri'' Munday & Fish –

Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...

(South Africa),

Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...

* ''

Sartidia isaloensis ''Sartidia'' is a genus of Southern African and Madagascan plants in the grass family. It was split from '' Aristida'' in 1963 by South African botanist Bernard de Winter and contains six known species, of which '' Sartidia perrieri'' is consi ...

'' Voronts., Razanatsoa & Besnard – Madagascar * ''

Sartidia jucunda ''Sartidia'' is a genus of Southern African and Madagascan plants in the grass family. It was split from '' Aristida'' in 1963 by South African botanist Bernard de Winter and contains six known species, of which '' Sartidia perrieri'' is consi ...

'' (Schweick.) De Winter – Limpopo (South Africa) * '' Sartidia perrieri'' (A.Camus) Bourreil – Madagascar (extinct) * ''

Sartidia vanderystii ''Sartidia'' is a genus of Southern African and Madagascan plants in the grass family. It was split from '' Aristida'' in 1963 by South African botanist Bernard de Winter and contains six known species, of which '' Sartidia perrieri'' is consi ...

'' (De Wild.) De Winter – Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Flora of Africa Poaceae genera Aristidoideae {{Poaceae-stub