Cleistogenes

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Cleistogenes
Cleistogenes serotina - Berlin Botanical Garden - IMG 8585.JPG
Cleistogenes serotina
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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 [1] [2]
  • KengiaPacker

Cleistogenes is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family. [3]

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. [4] [5]

Species [1] [6]
formerly included [1]

see Orinus

References