Cryptochloa

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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Cryptochloa is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Mexico, Central America, and South America.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15998696#page/324/mode/1up Swallen, Jason Richard 1942. Cryptochloa. In Contributions toward a flora of Panama VI, Collections chiefly by H. von Wedel in Boca del Toro. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 29(4): 317-322][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00157.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

Soderstrom, T. R. 1982. New species of Cryptochloa and Piresia (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). Brittonia 34(2): 199–209

;Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451311 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Cryptochloa The Plant List search for Cryptochloa]

1. Cryptochloa capillata (Trin.) Soderstr. - French Guiana, Brazil
2. Cryptochloa concinna (Hook.f.) Swallen - Colombia, Central America, southern Mexico
3. Cryptochloa decumbens Soderstr. & Zuloaga - Panama
4. Cryptochloa dressleri Soderstr. - Panama
5. Cryptochloa soderstromii Davidse - Panama
6. Cryptochloa strictiflora (E.Fourn.) Swallen - Central America, southern Mexico, Ecuador
7. Cryptochloa unispiculata Soderstr. - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil (Acre)
8. Cryptochloa variana Swallen - Honduras, Panama, Colombia