''Schoenefeldiella transiens'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the grass family,

Poaceae 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 cultivate ...

. It is the sole species in genus ''Schoenefeldiella''. It is a perennial native to eastern and southern Africa, ranging from

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

and

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Nguni languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It shares bor ...

in northern

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. The species was first named ''Chloris transiens'' by

Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger (3 July 1876, Helgoland – 1 September 1953, Berlin) monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus ''Schoenefeldiella'' as ''Schoenefeldiella transiens''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q126177349, from2= Q126177375 Chloridoideae Monotypic Poaceae genera Flora of Ethiopia Flora of Kenya Flora of Mozambique Flora of the Northern Provinces Flora of Somalia Flora of Sudan Flora of Tanzania Flora of Uganda Flora of Zimbabwe Plants described in 1914 Taxa named by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger