Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species. His last official act as president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was to admit Charles Darwin as a member. He was the author of numerous monographs on botany and zoology. His best-known works deal with fungi.
Habrochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Habrochloa bullockii native to Cameroon, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Eragrostis dielsii, commonly known as mallee lovegrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae that is endemic to Australia.
Exotheca is a monotypic genus of African and Southeast Asian plants in the grass family.
Pseudoraphis is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family, commonly known as mudgrasses.
Acritochaete is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Andropterum is a genus of African plants in the grass family. There is only one known species, Andropterum stolzii, native to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi and Burundi.
Buergersiochloa is a genus of New Guinean in the grass family.
Cleistachne is a genus of African and Asian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Cleistachne sorghoides, native to Eastern Africa and Southeastern Africa, and parts of Asia.
Chrysochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Snowdenia is a genus of plants in the grass family, they are native to Arabia and East Africa.
Spheneria is a genus of plants in the grass family. The only known species is Spheneria kegelii, native to Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil.
Dielsiochloa is a genus of South American plants in the grass family. The only known species is Dielsiochloa floribunda, native to Bolivia, Peru, northwestern Argentina, and northern Chile.
Oxyrhachis is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Oxyrhachis gracillima, native to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Madagascar, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province.
Eccoptocarpha is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Eccoptocarpha obconiciventris, native to Tanzania and Zambia.
Halopyrum is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Halopyrum mucronatum, native to the Indian Subcontinent, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Socotra, Madagascar, and eastern + northeastern Africa.
Hubbardochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family. It was named after British botanist Charles Edward Hubbard (1900–1980). The only known species is Hubbardochloa gracilis, native to Rwanda, Burundi, and Zambia.
Hylebates is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
Megalachne is a genus of Chilean plants in the grass family, found only on the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile. A genetic analysis found it to be most closely related to the extinct Podophorus, also endemic to the Juan Fernández archipelago. This clade was in turn found to be nested within a paraphyletic Festuca, most closely related to F. pampeana of South America.
Neesiochloa is a genus of Brazilian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Neesiochloa barbata. It is native to eastern Brazil.
