Oxyrhachis

Oxyrhachis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Tribe:	Andropogoneae
Subtribe:	Tripsacinae
Genus:	Oxyrhachis Pilg.
Species:	O. gracillima
Binomial name
Oxyrhachis gracillima (Baker) C.E.Hubb.
Synonyms [1]
Rottboellia gracillimaBaker Oxyrhachis mildbraedianaPilg. (type species of Oxyrhachis) Oxyrhachis gracillima subsp. occidentalisGledhill

Oxyrhachis is a genus of African plants in the grass family. ^{[2] [3]} The only known species is Oxyrhachis gracillima, native to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Madagascar, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province. ^{[1] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Pilger, Robert Knud Friedrich 1932. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 11: 655
3. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
4. Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris.
5. Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
6. Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898.
7. Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
8. Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
9. Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.