Ctenium
Genus of grasses
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Ctenium is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family.[4][5]
- Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood - United States from Texas to New Jersey
- Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner - Bahia
- Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Paraguay
- Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm. - Brazil
- Ctenium canescens Benth. West Africa
- Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll - Brazil
- Ctenium cirrhosum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Suriname
- Ctenium concinnum Nees - Africa incl Madagascar
- Ctenium concissum Swallen - Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia
- Ctenium crista-castrensis (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen - United States, Canada
- Ctenium elegans Kunth - Africa
- Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc. - Georgia, Florida
- Ctenium ledermannii Pilg. - central Africa
- Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope - Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia
- Ctenium newtonii Hack. - Africa
- Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth - central + southern Mexico
- Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen - western Mexico
- Ctenium polystachyum Balansa - Brazil, Paraguay
- Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton - Guinea, Liberia
- Ctenium villosum Berhaut - West Africa
- formerly included
| Ctenium | |
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| Ctenium aromaticum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cynodonteae |
| Subtribe: | Cteniinae P.M.Peterson, Romasch. & Y.Herrera |
| Genus: | Ctenium Panz. 1813 not C.E.O. Jensen 1923[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ctenium carolinianum (syn of C. aromaticum)[2][3] | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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see Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon
- Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus
- Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon tenellus
- Ctenium nukaviense - Dactyloctenium aegyptium
- Ctenium rupestre - Enteropogon rupestris
- Ctenium sechellense - Enteropogon sechellensis
