''Peyritschia'' is a

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Species

31 species are accepted. *'' Peyritschia angusta'' – Guatemala and southeastern Mexico *'' Peyritschia bealii'' – eastern and southwestern Mexico *'' Peyritschia coahuilensis'' – northeastern Mexico * '' Peyritschia conferta'' (Pilg.) Finot –

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* '' Peyritschia curviseta'' – northeastern Mexico (Nuevo León) * '' Peyritschia deyeuxioides'' (Kunth) Finot –

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, and Peru * '' Peyritschia durangensis'' – northern Mexico (Durango) * '' Peyritschia erectifolia'' – central and southwestern Mexico * '' Peyritschia eriantha'' – central Mexico * '' Peyritschia filifolia'' – northeastern Mexico * '' Peyritschia foliosa'' – northwestern Mexico * '' Peyritschia graphephoroides'' – Guatemala and southern Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama * '' Peyritschia howellii'' (Hitchc.) Finot & P.M.Peterson – Galápagos * '' Peyritschia humilis'' (Louis-Marie) Finot – central

* '' Peyritschia irazuensis'' – Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador * '' Peyritschia killipii'' – Colombia * '' Peyritschia koelerioides'' (Peyr.) E.Fourn. - Mexico and Guatemala * '' Peyritschia martha-gonzaleziae'' – northern Mexico (Chihuahua and Durango) * '' Peyritschia orizabae'' – south-central Mexico (Veracruz to Oaxaca) * '' Peyritschia palmeri'' – northern and western Mexico * '' Peyritschia pinetorum'' (Swallen) Finot & P.M.Peterson – southeastern Mexico and Guatemala * '' Peyritschia planifolia'' – Costa Rica and western South America from Venezuela to Bolivia * '' Peyritschia pringlei'' (Scribn.) S.D.Koch –

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, Ecuador, and Peru * '' Peyritschia spellenbergii'' – northern Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua) * '' Peyritschia tolucensis'' – Guatemala and central and southern Mexico * '' Peyritschia tonduzii'' – Costa Rica and Panama * '' Peyritschia valida'' – western Mexico * '' Peyritschia viridis'' – Guatemala and northeastern, central, and southwestern Mexico * '' Peyritschia virletii'' – Mexico * '' Peyritschia vulcanica'' – Guatemala and southeastern Mexico

References

Pooideae Poaceae genera Flora of the Neotropical realm Taxa described in 1886 {{Pooideae-stub