Chlorocalymma

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Chlorocalymma is a genus of Tanzanian plants in the grass family.Clayton, William Derek. 1970. Kew Bulletin 24: 461{{Cite web |url=http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00131.htm |title=Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora |access-date=2009-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904050607/http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00131.htm |archive-date=2009-09-04 |url-status=dead }} The only known species is Chlorocalymma cryptacanthum,[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=404982 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] native to the Iringa Region of central Tanzania.Clayton, 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

The name is from the Greek words chloros (green) and kalymma (covering).Quattrocchi, Umberto. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8ieqQs7hIREC&pg=PA488&lpg=PA488 CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology], p. 488 (CRC Press, 2006).