Cutandia

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image =Cutandia_memphitica_kz03.jpg

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Cutandia

|image_caption = C. Memphitica

|authority = Willk.

|type_species = Cutandia scleropoides

|type_species_authority = Willk.

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451318 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40018664 Tropicos, Cutandia Willk.]

|synonyms =

• Festuca sect. Cutandia (Willk.) Asch. & Graebn.
• Scleropoa sect. Cutandia (Willk.) Bonnet & Barratte
• Scleropoa subg. Cutandia (Willk.) Rouy

}}

Cutandia is a genus of Asian and Mediterranean plant in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33613562#page/146/mode/1up Willkomm, Heinrich Moritz. 1860. Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 18: 130] in Latin It grows from Portugal and Cape Verde to Pakistan and Kazakhstan.[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Cutandia Altervista Flora Italiana genere Cutandia]

; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Cutandia The Plant List search for Cutandia]

• Cutandia dichotoma (Forssk.) Trab. - Asia + Africa from Algeria to Iran
• Cutandia divaricata (Desf.) Benth. - Canary Islands, Spain, Italy (incl Sicily + Sardinia), Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
• Cutandia maritima (L.) Benth. - Mediterranean, Canary Islands
• Cutandia memphitica (Spreng.) Benth. - Spain, North Africa, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Middle East, Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia
• Cutandia rigescens (Grossh.) Tzvelev - Caucasus, iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
• Cutandia stenostachya (Boiss.) Stace - Greece + Turkey including Aegean Islands

; Former species

See Desmazeria and Vulpiella

• Cutandia incrassata - Vulpiella stipoides
• Cutandia philistaea - Desmazeria philistaea
• Cutandia rohlfsiana - Desmazeria philistaea