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Elionurus
Genus of grasses
Elionurus is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.
- Species
- 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
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
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- Elionurus muticus imported from iNaturalist photo 15199074 on 28 March 2020.jpg by (c) Nicola van Berkel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), CC BY-SA 4.0
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