Fingerhuthia

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|image_caption = Fingerhuthia africana

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|taxon = Fingerhuthia

|authority = Nees ex Lehm.

|type_species = Fingerhuthia africana

|type_species_authority = Nees ex Lehm.

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Fingerhuthia is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family.Lehmann, Johann Georg Christian. 1834. Semina in Horto Botanico Hamburgensi 1834: 7[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00248.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora] Common names are thimble grass{{Cite web |url=http://www.mountainstamp.com/Namibia%20pages/2007%20Definitive%20serie.html |title=Government of Namibia, 4th Definitive Stamp series, Biodiversity |access-date=2015-03-28 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093959/http://www.mountainstamp.com/Namibia%20pages/2007%20Definitive%20serie.html |url-status=dead }} and Zulu fescue.

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=417257 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Fingerhuthia The Plant List search for Fingerhuthia]

• Fingerhuthia africana Nees ex Lehm. - South Africa, Eswatini, Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, Afghanistan; naturalized in Pima County in Arizona in United States[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Fingerhuthia%20africana.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map]
• Fingerhuthia sesleriiformis Nees - South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia