Gilgiochloa

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|genus = Gilgiochloa

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|species = indurata

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• Gilgiochloa alopecuroides Peter

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Gilgiochloa is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/189299#page/516/mode/1up Pilger, Robert Knud Friedrich. 1914. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 51(3–4): 415-418] descriptions in Latin, commentary and figure captions in German, full-page drawing of Gilgiochloa indurata on page 417[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00257.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

The genus is named after German botanist Ernest Friedrich Gilg (1867–1933) by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger.

The only known species is Gilgiochloa indurata, native to Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.Clayton, W.D. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 1-231. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique , n.s., 132: 1-127.