Acritochaete

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|genus = Acritochaete

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|species = volkensii

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|synonyms = Oplismenus volkensii (Pilg.) Mez ex Peter

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Acritochaete is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/184848#page/60/mode/1up Pilger, Robert Knud Friedrich. 1902. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 32: 53-55] descriptions in Latin, commentary in German{{cite web|url=http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/acritoch.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references |accessdate=2009-08-19 |author=Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. |date=2008 |work=The Grass Genera of the World |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720141613/http://www.delta-intkey.com/grass/www/acritoch.htm |archivedate=2008-07-20 }}[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00004.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

The only known species is Acritochaete volkensii, native to Nigeria, Cameroon, islands of the Gulf of Guinea, Zaïre, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420Clayton, W.D. & S.A. Renvoize. 1982. Gramineae (Part 3). 451–898. In W. B. Turrill & R.M. Polhill (ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam