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Cynosurus

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|image = Cynosurus echinatus — Flora Batava — Volume v20.jpg

|image_caption = Cynosurus echinatus 1898 illustration from

Janus (Jan) Kops (1765–1849)& F. W. van Eeden, Flora Batava. Afbeelding en beschrijving der Nederlandsche Gewassen. (1898)

|display_parents = 4

|parent_authority = Fr.

|taxon = Cynosurus

|authority = L.

|type_species = Cynosurus cristatus

|type_species_authority = L.lectotype designated by Nash in N. L. Britton et A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N.U.S. ed. 2. 1: 251. 7 Jun 1913[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40020187 Tropicos, Cynosurus L.]

|synonyms = Phalona Dumort.

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Cynosurus L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17838-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=13 May 2025}}

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Cynosurus is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. Plants in this genus are known generally as dogstail grass. They are native to the Europe, the Azores, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Iran, but some have been introduced into Australia as well as North and South America.Long, S. [http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Cynosurus&type=treatment Cynosurus L.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611122959/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Cynosurus&type=treatment |date=2011-06-11 }} Grass Manual. Flora of North America.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=108998 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 245 洋狗尾草属 yang gou wei cao shu Cynosurus][http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Cynosurus Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Cynosurus][http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=CYNOS2&display=31 United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile]

Species

Three species are currently accepted.

=Formerly included=

Numerous names have been coined using the name Cynosurus, applied to species now regarded as better suited to other genera (Aegopogon, Apera, Beckmannia, Bouteloua, Centotheca, Chloris, Ciliochloa, Coelachyrum, Cynodon, Dactyloctenium, Desmostachya, Dinebra, Eleusine, Enteropogon, Falona, Festuca, Harpochloa, Lamarckia, Leptochloa, Ochthochloa, Oreochloa, Polypogon, Rostraria, Sclerochloa, Sesleria, Sesleriella, Tribolium, and Wangenheimia). Here are links to help you find the appropriate information.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451329 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Category:Pooideae

Category:Poaceae genera

Category:Taxa described in 1753

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

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