Amelichloa

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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| taxon = Amelichloa

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Amelichloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.{{cite web |title=Amelichloa Arriaga & Barkworth {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60443104-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 September 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range stretches from Mexico into southern South America. It is found in (southern, north-eastern and north-western) Argentina, Chile, most of Mexico and Uruguay.

The genus was circumscribed by Mirta O. Arriaga and Mary Elizabeth Barkworth in Sida vol.22 on page 146 in 2006.

The genus name of Amelichloa is in honour of María Amelia Torres (1934–2011), who was an Argentine botanist, lecturer and curator of the Herbarium of the National University of La Plata.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}