''Manisuris'' is a

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Formerly included species

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Chasmopodium ''Chasmopodium'' is a genus of African plants in the grass family. ; Species * '' Chasmopodium afzelii'' (Hack.) Stapf – Sierra Leone, Togo * '' Chasmopodium caudatum'' (Hack.) Stapf – Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivo ...

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Coelorachis ''Coelorachis'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family, widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas. ''Coelorhachis'' is treated by some sources as part of the genus ''Mnesithea'', so the following species can g ...

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Glyphochloa ''Glyphochloa'' is a genus of Indian plants in the grass family. ; Species See also dit * Tribe Andropogoneae * List of Poaceae genera Poaceae, also known as the true grasses, is the fourth largest plant family in the world with around 1 ...

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Hackelochloa ''Hackelochloa'' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family. The genus was named after Eduard Hackel, an Austrian botanist, by Otto Kuntze, in 1891. Species *'' Hackelochloa granularis'' ( L.) Kuntze - sub-Saharan Africa; so ...

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Hemarthria ''Hemarthria'' is a genus of herbaceous plants in the grass family. They occur in the tropical and subtropical Old World, especially in China and Southeast Asia, with some species in Africa, Australia, and Southern Europe.

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Heteropholis ''Heteropholis'' is a genus of African and Sri Lankan plants in the grass family. ; Species * '' Heteropholis benoistii'' A.Camus - Madagascar * '' Heteropholis nigrescens'' (Thwaites) C.E.Hubb. - Sri Lanka * '' Heteropholis sulcata'' (Stapf) C. ...

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Lasiurus ''Lasiurus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats. Phylogeny The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within ''Lasiurus'', based on an analysis ...

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Mnesithea ''Mnesithea'', or jointtail grass, is a genus of Asian, Australian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. The number of species placed in the genus varied considerably depending in large part on how the genus ''Coelorachis'' was treate ...

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Phacelurus ''Phacelurus'' is a genus of African and Eurasian plants in the grass family. ; Species * '' Phacelurus cambogiensis'' (Balansa) Clayton - Laos, Cambodia * '' Phacelurus digitatus'' (Sm.) Griseb. - Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syr ...

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Rhytachne ''Rhytachne'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family. They grow principally in wet savannahs in Africa and the Americas. More specifically, they tend to prefer transitional zones between marshes and drier upland savannahs. In the Ameri ...

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Rottboellia ''Rottboellia'' (commonly called itch grass) is a genus of African, Asian, and Australian plants in the grass family. The genus was named in honour of Danish botanist Christen Friis Rottbøll (1727-1797). Species 24 species are accepted. * '' R ...

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Rottboellia cochinchinensis ''Rottboellia cochinchinensis'' is a species of grass known by the common names Itchgrass,Holm, L. G., Plucknett, D. L., Pancho, J. V., & Herberger, J. P. (1977). The world’s worst weeds. The World’s Worst Weeds.Smith, M. C., Reeder, R. H., & ...

References

Andropogoneae Endemic flora of India (region) Monotypic Poaceae genera {{Panicoideae-stub