Cleistogenes

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[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]

• Cleistogenes caespitosa Keng - China
• Cleistogenes festucacea Honda - China
• Cleistogenes gatacrei (Stapf) Bor - Afghanistan, Pakistan
• Cleistogenes hackelii (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
• Cleistogenes hancei Keng - China, Primorye
• Cleistogenes kitagawae Honda - Hebei, Liaoning, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Siberia
• Cleistogenes mucronata Keng f. - China
• Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi Tzvelev - Primorye
• Cleistogenes polyphylla Keng f. - China
• Cleistogenes ramiflora Keng f. & C.P.Wang - Inner Mongolia
• Cleistogenes serotina (L.) Keng - Eurasia from Spain to Kazakhstan
• Cleistogenes songorica (Roshev.) Ohwi - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin. ex Ledeb.) Keng - China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Caucasus

formerly included[1]

see Orinus

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

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta, Taxon 43: 123 (1994)
3. Flora of China, Vol. 22 Page 460 隐子草属 yin zi cao shu Cleistogenes Keng, Sinensia. 5: 147. 1934.
4. Keng, Yi Li 1934. Sinensia 5: 147
5. Tropicos, Cleistogenes Keng
6. The Plant List search for Cleistogenes