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Cleistogenes

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Cleistogenes
Cleistogenes serotina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]
  • Kengia Packer

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

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