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''Canastra'' is a genus of
bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...
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 ...
. Its species are endemic to Brazil.


Species

Species include: * ''
Canastra aristella ''Canastra'' is a genus of bunchgrass plants in the grass family. Its species are endemic to Brazil. Species Species include: * '' Canastra aristella'' (Döll) Zuloaga & Morrone — Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul ...
'' (Döll) Zuloaga & MorroneMinas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro,
Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
, Santa Catarina, São Paulo states. * '' Canastra lanceolata'' (Filg.) Morrone, Zuloaga, Davidse & Filg.Minas Gerais state. Jstor.org: "Canastra, a New Genus of Paniceae (Poaceae, Panicoideae) Segregated from Arthropogon"
Osvaldo Morrone, Fernando O. Zuloaga, Gerrit Davidse and Tarciso S. Filgueiras; ''Novon'' Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 429-436.


See also

* List of Poaceae genera


References

Panicoideae Poaceae genera Bunchgrasses of South America Endemic flora of Brazil Grasses of Brazil Flora of Minas Gerais {{Panicoideae-stub