Capillipedium

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|image_caption = Capillipedium parviflorum

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|taxon = Capillipedium

|authority = Stapf

|type_species = Capillipedium parviflorum

|type_species_authority = (R.Br.) Stapf

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• Filipedium Raizada & S.K.Jain

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Capillipedium (common name scented-tops)[http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:413727 Atlas of Living Australia, Capillipedium Stapf, Scented-tops] is a genus of plants in the grass family.{{Cite journal |last=Landge |first=Shahid Nawaz |date=23 April 2021 |title=Capillipedium mistryi (Andropogoneae, Poaceae): a new remarkable species from central India |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.498.1.6 |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=498 |issue=1 |pages=051–057 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.498.1.6 |via=Magnolia Press|url-access=subscription }}Stapf, Otto. 1917. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 11, 169[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40000894 Tropicos, Capillipedium Stapf ] They are native to Africa, Asia, Australia, and certain islands in the Western Pacific.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=105549 Flora of Pakistan, Capillipedium Stapf][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=105549 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 605 细柄草属 xi bing cao shu Capillipedium Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa. 9: 169. 1917. ]

Capillipedium mistryi is an exception in the genus from India in which solid instead of translucent pedicels are seen and spikelets are multispiculated, racemes comprising up to 25 spikelets. A recently described species, C. yashwantraoi, from Madhya Pradesh, India has been subsumed under the former as a new heterotypic synonym.{{Cite journal |last=Landge |first=Shahid Nawaz |date=May 2023 |title=On the taxonomic identity of Capillipedium mistryi A. P. Tiwari & Landge (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) and synonymisation of C. yashwantraoi Tarbej & Potdar as its new heterotypic synonym |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/njb.03986 |journal=Nordic Journal of Botany |volume=2023 |issue=6 |pages=e03986|doi=10.1111/njb.03986 |url-access=subscription }}

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451199 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Capillipedium The Plant List search for Capillipedium]

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• Capillipedium annamense - Thailand, Vietnam
• Capillipedium assimile - China, Ryukyu Is, SE Asia, Indian Subcon
• Capillipedium duongii - Vietnam
• Capillipedium filiculme - India
• Capillipedium huegelii - Indian Subcon, Myanmar
• Capillipedium kuoi - Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet
• Capillipedium kwashotense - Taiwan, Iriomote-jima
• Capillipedium laoticum - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
• Capillipedium leucotrichum - Laos, Cambodia
• Capillipedium longisetosum - Thailand
• Capillipedium magdalenii - India
• Capillipedium mistryi
• Capillipedium nagense - Assam
• Capillipedium parviflorum - Africa (from Eritrea to Mpumalanga), Asia (from Oman to Japan + Sulawesi), Australia, Pacific Islands
• Capillipedium planipedicellatum - Assam
• Capillipedium pteropechys - Nagaland
• Capillipedium spicigerum - Japan, S China, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Is, New Guinea, Solomon Is, Australia, New Caledonia, Micronesia
• Capillipedium sulcatum - Thailand

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; formerly included

see Hemisorghum

• Capillipedium venustum - Hemisorghum venustum