Kellochloa
{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Kellochloa verrucosa iNat-55545137.jpg
|image_caption = Kellochloa verrucosa
|taxon = Kellochloa
|authority = Lizarazu, Nicola & Scataglini
}}
Kellochloa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.{{cite web |title=Kellochloa Lizarazu, Nicola & Scataglini {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77151968-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}}
Its native range is Central and Eastern USA.
The genus name of Kellochloa is in honour of Elizabeth Anne Kellog (b.1951) an American botanist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}
The genus was published by Mabel A. Lizarazu, Marcela Viviana Nicola and M. Amalia Scataglini in Pl. Syst. Evol. vol.301 (issue 9) on page 2256.
- Kellochloa brachyantha {{small|(Steud.) Lizarazu, Nicola & Scataglini}}
- Kellochloa verrucosa {{small|(Muhl.) Lizarazu, Nicola & Scataglini}}