| Elionurus | |
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| Elionurus muticus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Supertribe: | Andropogonodae |
| Tribe: | Andropogoneae |
| Subtribe: | Tripsacinae |
| Genus: | Elionurus Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. not Kunth 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Elionurus tripsacoides | |
| Synonyms | |
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Elionurus is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.
- Species
- Elionurus barbiculmis - Mexico, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico
- Elionurus bilinguis - Brazil
- Elionurus ciliaris - Latin America (from Mexico to Paraguay); West Africa
- Elionurus citreus - Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
- Elionurus elegans - West Africa
- Elionurus euchaetus - Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso
- Elionurus hensii - Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
- Elionurus hirtifolius - western + central Africa
- Elionurus lividus - Paraguay
- Elionurus muticus - Africa, Yemen, South America
- Elionurus planifolius - South America
- Elionurus platypus - western + central Africa
- Elionurus royleanus - Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Sahara, East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, India
- Elionurus tripsacoides - Latin America (from Mexico to Paraguay); eastern + southern Africa
- Elionurus tristis - Madagascar
- formerly included
see Bothriochloa Lasiurus Loxodera Phacelurus Schizachyrium Urelytrum
- Elionurus agropyroides - Urelytrum agropyroides
- Elionurus dubius - Schizachyrium tenerum
- Elionurus gabonensis - Phacelurus gabonensis
- Elionurus hirsutus - Lasiurus scindicus
- Elionurus ledermannii - Loxodera ledermannii
- Elionurus pertusus - Bothriochloa pertusa
