Parodiophyllochloa

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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| taxon = Parodiophyllochloa

| authority = Zuloaga & Morrone

| type_species = Parodiophyllochloa cordovense

| type_species_authority = E.Fourn.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50321958 Tropicos, Parodiophyllochloa Zuloaga & Morrone ]

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Parodiophyllochloa is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.Morrone, O., S. S. Denham, S. S. Aliscioni & F. O. Zuloaga. 2008. Parodiophyllochloa, a new genus segregated from Panicum (Paniceae, Poaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Botany 33(1): 66–76.{{cite web |title=Parodiophyllochloa Zuloaga & Morrone {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77093481-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=8 November 2021 |language=en}}

The genus name of Parodiophyllochloa is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of botany in Buenos Aires and La Plata with a focus on South American grasses.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

; Species[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451782 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

• Parodiophyllochloa cordovensis - from northern Mexico to northern Argentina
• Parodiophyllochloa missiona - Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina
• Parodiophyllochloa ovulifera - tropical South America
• Parodiophyllochloa pantricha - tropical South + Central America
• Parodiophyllochloa penicillata - Brazil
• Parodiophyllochloa rhizogona - Brazil, northeastern Argentina