Hydrothauma

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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Hydrothauma is a genus of African plants in the grass family.Hubbard, Charles Edward 1947. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 35: plate 3458[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00302.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

The only known species is Hydrothauma manicatum, native to Zaïre and Zambia.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=419648 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-419648 The Plant List, Hydrothauma manicatum C.E.Hubb. ]