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 ...
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Asia
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Australia
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East Africa
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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 ...
Tamil Nadu
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
Indian Subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakista ...
, southern
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
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Ryukyu Islands
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New Guinea
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Australia
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India
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Bangladesh
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Bhutan
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Myanmar
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Thailand
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Eritrea
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Ethiopia
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Sudan
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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 ...
Hainardia
''Hainardia'' is a genus of coastal plants in the grass family, native to the Mediterranean Basin.
The only known species is ''Hainardia cylindrica'', known by several common names, including barbgrass, one-glumed hard-grass, and thintail. It ...
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 ...
Parapholis
''Parapholis'' is a genus of Eurasian and North African flowering plants in the Poaceae, grass family.
Species
*''Parapholis filiformis'' (Roth) C.E.Hubb. - from Madeira to Turkey
*''Parapholis gracilis'' Bor - Caucasus, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thaumastochloa
''Thaumastochloa'' is a genus of Australian, Papuasian, and Indonesian plants in the grass family.
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see ''Mnesithea''
* ''Thaumastochloa chenii - Mnesithea laevis var. chenii''
* ''Thaumastochloa cochinchinensi ...