''Cleistochloa'' is a

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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 perennia ...

es in the family

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.Hubbard, Charles Edward. 1933. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 33: plate 3209 It includes three species native to

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and eastern

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Species

Three species are accepted. * ''

Cleistochloa sclerachne ''Cleistochloa'' is a genus of bunchgrasses in the family Poaceae.Hubbard, Charles Edward. 1933. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 33: plate 3209 It includes three species native to New Guinea and eastern Australia (Queensland and New South Wales). Spe ...

'' (F.M.Bailey) C.E.Hubb. - Queensland and New Guinea * '' Cleistochloa subjuncea'' C.E.Hubb. - Queensland and New South Wales * '' Cleistochloa uncinulata'' – Queensland and New South Wales; introduced to

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Formerly placed here

* '' Dimorphochloa rigida'' (as ''Cleistochloa rigida'' (S.T.Blake) Clayton)

References

Panicoideae Poaceae genera Bunchgrasses of Australasia Flora of New Guinea Taxa named by Charles Edward Hubbard {{Panicoideae-stub