Paratheria

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{about|the grass|the obsolete mammalian group that included xenarthrans|Paratheria (mammals)}}

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Paratheria is a genus of African and Caribbean plants in the grass family.

[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00458.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/403902#page/241/mode/1up Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf 1866. Catalogus plantarum cubensium exhibens collectionem Wrightianam aliasque minores ex insula Cuba missas page 236]

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=431059 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Paratheria The Plant List search for Paratheria]

• Paratheria glaberrima C.E.Hubb. – Sierra Leone, Republic of the Congo
• Paratheria prostrata Griseb. – Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia to Namibia and Madagascar; Costa Rica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Bolivia, Brazil