Louisiella

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|taxon = Louisiella

|authority = C.E.Hubb. & J.Léonard

|type_species = Louisiella fluitans

|type_species_authority = C.E.Hubb. & J.Léonard

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Louisiella is a genus of African, Neotropical and tropical plants in the grass family.Hubbard, Charles Edward & Léonard, Jean Joseph Gustave. 1952. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 22: 316-317[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00360.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]{{Cite journal |last=Landge |first=Shahid Nawaz |date=22 July 2021 |title=A new combination in the genus Louisiella |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.512.2.3 |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=512 |issue=2 |pages=107–111 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.512.2.3 |via=Magnolia Press|url-access=subscription }} Earlier the genus was known to comprise only two species i.e. L. fluitans and L. elephantipes. [https://www.ipni.org/a/20046653-1 Mr. Shahid Nawaz], an agrostologist at the Blatter Herbarium (BLAT), transferred a species Panicum paludosum Roxb. into Louisiella based on critical study of the morphological features. Now, there are three globally accepted species in the genus.

; Species[http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Louisiella&commonname= Tropicos, search for Louisiella][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=423113 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{cite journal | last1 = Scataglini | first1 = M. A. | last2 = Lizarazu | first2 = M. A. | last3 = Zuloaga | first3 = F. O. | year = 2014 | title = A peculiar amphitropical genus of Paniceae (Poaceae, Panicoideae) | journal = Systematic Botany | volume = 39 | issue = 4| pages = 1108–1119| doi = 10.1600/036364414X683886 | s2cid = 84381406 | hdl = 11336/18998 | hdl-access = free }}Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557

• Louisiella fluitans C.E.Hubb. & J.Léonard - Cameroon, Zaïre, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Sudan
• Louisiella elephantipes (Nees ex Trin.) Zuloaga - Latin America (from southern Mexico and the Greater Antilles to Uruguay).
• Louisiella paludosa (Roxb.) [https://www.ipni.org/a/20046653-1 Landge] - India, Southeast Asia up to Australia.