Gaudinia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Gaudinia fragilis - Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg - DSC07884.JPG

|image_caption = Gaudinia fragilis

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Gaudinia

|authority = P.Beauv.

|type_species_authority =

|type_species = Gaudinia fragilis

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms =

• Arthrostachya Link
• Cylichnium Dulac
• Falimiria Besser ex Rchb.
• Meringurus Murb.

}}

Gaudinia is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family.[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00253.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394174#page/179/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 95] in Latin[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394174#page/304/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XIX (19), figure V (5 a-d)] line drawing of Gaudinia fragilis, [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394174#page/279/mode/1up figure captions on caption page 13]Stace, C. A. & T. G. Tutin. 1978. 'A new species of Gaudinia from Spain'. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 76: 353–356

The genus name is a tribute to Swiss botanist Jean François Aimé Théophile Philippe Gaudin (1766-1833).

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451535 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Gaudinia The Plant List search for Gaudinia]

• Gaudinia coarctata - Azores
• Gaudinia fragilis - Mediterranean + nearby regions from Portugal + Morocco to Turkey
• Gaudinia hispanica - Spain
• Gaudinia maroccana - Morocco

; formerly included

see Helictochloa Ventenata

• Gaudinia biebersteinii - Ventenata macra
• Gaudinia fragilis - Ventenata macra
• Gaudinia planiculmis - Helictochloa planiculmis
• Gaudinia tenuis - Ventenata dubia