''Polytoca'' 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 ...

of Indomalayan and Australasian 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 ...

.Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 650 多裔草属 duo yi cao shu ''Polytoca'' R. Brown
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Species

11 species are accepted. *'' Polytoca biaurita'' – Philippines (Luzon) *'' Polytoca cyathopoda'' – New Guinea and northern Australia *'' Polytoca digitata'' (L.f.) Druce – southern China, eastern Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Indochina, Philippines, Java, and New Guinea *'' Polytoca gigantea'' – Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, and Java *'' Polytoca hubbardiana'' – eastern Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, and northern Australia *'' Polytoca javanica'' – eastern Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands *'' Polytoca macrophylla'' – Maluku and Papuasia *'' Polytoca massiei'' – Indochina and Hainan *'' Polytoca punctata'' – Indochina, Philippines, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands *'' Polytoca semiteres'' – western and southern India and Myanmar *'' Polytoca wallichiana'' (Nees ex Steud.) Benth. – eastern Himalayas, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam

Formerly included

See '' Cleistochloa'' and '' Trilobachne''Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> * '' Cleistochloa sclerachne'' (as ''Polytoca sclerachne'' ) * '' Trilobachne cookei'' (as ''Polytoca cookei'' )

References

Poaceae genera Andropogoneae Taxa described in 1838 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) {{Panicoideae-stub