''Chaetobromus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

n plants in the

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

. ; Species There is only one known species, ''Chaetobromus involucratus'', native to

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

and

Cape Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (), commonly referred to as the Cape Province () and colloquially as The Cape (), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Co ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria ; Subspecies Three subspecies are accepted * ''Chaetobromus involucratus'' subsp. ''dregeanus'' (Nees) Verboom * ''Chaetobromus involucratus'' subsp. ''involucratus'' * ''Chaetobromus involucratus'' subsp. ''sericeus'' (Nees) Verboom ; Formerly included taxa once considered part of ''Chaetobromus'' but now regarded as better suited to '' Tenaxia'' : * ''Chaetobromus fascicularis -

Tenaxia stricta ''Tenaxia'' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the Poaceae, grass family. ; Species * ''Tenaxia aureocephala'' (J.G.Anderson) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder - KwaZulu-Natal * ''Tenaxia cachemyriana'' (Jaub. & Spach) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder - Afg ...

'' * ''Chaetobromus strictus -

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Danthonioideae Grasses of Africa Grasses of South Africa Flora of Namibia Flora of Southern Africa Monotypic Poaceae genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck {{Poaceae-stub

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