Cleistogenes

Cleistogenes
Cleistogenes serotina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Orininae
Genus: Cleistogenes
Keng
Type species
Cleistogenes serotina
(L.) Keng.
Synonyms
  • Kengia Packer

Cleistogenes is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family.

The name Cleistogenes was for a time considered an invalidly published name synonymous with Kengia, but revisions to the Code of Nomenclature have reversed this situation. Cleistogenes is now the correct name.

Species
  • Cleistogenes caespitosa Keng - China
  • Cleistogenes festucacea Honda - China
  • Cleistogenes gatacrei (Stapf) Bor - Afghanistan, Pakistan
  • Cleistogenes hackelii (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
  • Cleistogenes hancei Keng - China, Primorye
  • Cleistogenes kitagawae Honda - Hebei, Liaoning, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Siberia
  • Cleistogenes mucronata Keng f. - China
  • Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi Tzvelev - Primorye
  • Cleistogenes polyphylla Keng f. - China
  • Cleistogenes ramiflora Keng f. & C.P.Wang - Inner Mongolia
  • Cleistogenes serotina (L.) Keng - Eurasia from Spain to Kazakhstan
  • Cleistogenes songorica (Roshev.) Ohwi - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin. ex Ledeb.) Keng - China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Caucasus
formerly included

see Orinus

  • Cleistogenes kokonorica - Orinus kokonorica
  • Cleistogenes thoroldii - Orinus thoroldii
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