| Capillipedium | |
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| Capillipedium parviflorum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Subtribe: | Andropogoninae |
| Genus: | Capillipedium Stapf |
| Type species | |
| Capillipedium parviflorum | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Capillipedium (common name scented-tops) [2] is a genus of plants in the grass family. [3] [4] [5] They are native to Africa, Asia, Australia, and certain islands in the Western Pacific. [6] [7]
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Capillipedium mistryi is an exception in the genus from India in which solid instead of translucent pedicels are seen and spikelets are multispiculated, racemes comprising up to 25 spikelets. [3] A recently described species, C. yashwantraoi , from Madhya Pradesh, India has been subsumed under the former as a new heterotypic synonym. [8]
- Species [1] [9]
- Capillipedium annamense - Thailand, Vietnam
- Capillipedium assimile - China, Ryukyu Is, SE Asia, Indian Subcon
- Capillipedium duongii - Vietnam
- Capillipedium filiculme - India
- Capillipedium huegelii - Indian Subcon, Myanmar
- Capillipedium kuoi - Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet
- Capillipedium kwashotense - Taiwan, Iriomote-jima
- Capillipedium laoticum - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Capillipedium leucotrichum - Laos, Cambodia
- Capillipedium longisetosum - Thailand
- Capillipedium magdalenii - India
- Capillipedium mistryi
- Capillipedium nagense - Assam
- Capillipedium parviflorum - Africa (from Eritrea to Mpumalanga), Asia (from Oman to Japan + Sulawesi), Australia, Pacific Islands
- Capillipedium planipedicellatum - Assam
- Capillipedium pteropechys - Nagaland
- Capillipedium spicigerum - Japan, S China, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Is, New Guinea, Solomon Is, Australia, New Caledonia, Micronesia
- Capillipedium sulcatum - Thailand
- formerly included [1]
see Hemisorghum
- Capillipedium venustum - Hemisorghum venustum
