Cleistogenes

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

Cleistogenes
Cleistogenes serotina
Scientific 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
  • Kengia Packer

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.

Species
formerly included

see Orinus

  • Cleistogenes kokonorica - Orinus kokonorica
  • Cleistogenes thoroldii - Orinus thoroldii
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