Pseudechinolaena

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|taxon = Pseudechinolaena

|authority = (Hook.f.) Stapf

|type_species_authority = Raddi

|type_species = Panicum uncinatum

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017129 Tropicos, Pseudechinolaena Stapf ]

|synonyms =

• Panicum sect. Pseudechinolaena Hook.f.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=438256 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
• Perulifera A.Camus
• Loxostachys Peter

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Pseudechinolaena is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, all but one species endemic to Madagascar.Stapf, Otto. 1919. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 494[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/356396#page/65/mode/1up Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1897. Flora of British India 7(21): 28, 58][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00519.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=126934 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500 钩毛草属 gou mao cao shu Pseudechinolaena Stapf, Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa. 9: 494. 1919. ]

; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Pseudechinolaena The Plant List search for Pseudechinolaena]

• Pseudechinolaena camusiana Bosser - Madagascar
• Pseudechinolaena madagascariensis (A.Camus) Bosser - Madagascar
• Pseudechinolaena moratii Bosser - Madagascar
• Pseudechinolaena perrieri A.Camus - Madagascar
• Pseudechinolaena polystachya (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Stapf - tropical - southern Africa, Asia (China, Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia), New Guinea, Latin America (from central Mexico to Uruguay)
• Pseudechinolaena tenuis Bosser - Madagascar

; Formerly included

see Echinochloa

• Pseudechinolaena helodes - Echinochloa helodes
• Pseudechinolaena inflexa - Echinochloa inflexa
• Pseudechinolaena spectabilis - Echinochloa polystachya