| Elionurus | |
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| Elionurus muticus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Subtribe: | Tripsacinae |
| Genus: | Elionurus Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. not Kunth 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Elionurus tripsacoides | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Elionurus is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.[2][3][4][5][6]
- Elionurus barbiculmis - Mexico, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico
- Elionurus bilinguis - Brazil
- Elionurus ciliaris - Latin America (from Mexico to Paraguay); West Africa
- Elionurus citreus - Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
- Elionurus elegans - West Africa
- Elionurus euchaetus - Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso
- Elionurus hensii - Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
- Elionurus hirtifolius - western + central Africa
- Elionurus lividus - Paraguay
- Elionurus muticus - Africa, Yemen, South America
- Elionurus planifolius - South America
- Elionurus platypus - western + central Africa
- Elionurus royleanus - Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Sahara, East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, India
- Elionurus tripsacoides - Latin America (from Mexico to Paraguay); eastern + southern Africa
- Elionurus tristis - Madagascar
- formerly included[1]
see Bothriochloa Lasiurus Loxodera Phacelurus Schizachyrium Urelytrum
- Elionurus agropyroides - Urelytrum agropyroides
- Elionurus dubius - Schizachyrium tenerum
- Elionurus gabonensis - Phacelurus gabonensis
- Elionurus hirsutus - Lasiurus scindicus
- Elionurus ledermannii - Loxodera ledermannii
- Elionurus pertusus - Bothriochloa pertusa
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von 1806. Caroli a Linné Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Editio quarta 4(2): 941-942 in Latin; pages misnumbered as 741 and 742
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ Renvoize, S. A. 1978. Studies in Elionurus (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 32(3): 665–672
- ^ Pohl, R. W. & G. Davidse. 1994. 167. Elyonurus Humb. et Bonpl. ex Willd. 6: 395–396. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
- ^ "Atlas of Living Australia, Elionurus Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Balsamscale". Archived from the original on 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
- ^ The Plant List search for Elionurus