Rytidosperma
{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
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| image = Rytidosperma pilosum.jpg
| image_caption = Rytidosperma pilosum
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| taxon = Rytidosperma
| authority = Steud.
| type_species = Rytidosperma lechleri
| type_species_authority = Steud.
| synonyms =
- Monostachya Merr.
- Erythranthera Zotov
- Notodanthonia Zotov
- Pyrrhanthera Zotov
- Joycea H.P.Linder
- Thonandia H.P.Linder
- Austrodanthonia H.P.Linder
}}
Rytidosperma is a genus of plants in the grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile, Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii, Easter Island).{{Cite web|title= Rytidosperma |url=http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00556.htm|access-date=2023-05-24|website=Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora.}} Several are known by the general common name wallaby grass.{{Cite web|title=Rytidosperma|url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=RYTID2|access-date=2023-05-24|website=USDA Plants Database}}
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; Species{{Cite web|title=ITIS - Report: Rytidosperma|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=564895|access-date=2023-05-24|website= Integrated Taxonomic Information System}}{{Cite web|title=Rytidosperma |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Rytidosperma|access-date=2023-05-24|website=The Plant List}}
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- Rytidosperma acerosum (Western Australia)
- Rytidosperma alpicola (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Rytidosperma auriculatum - Lobed wallaby-grass (South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Rytidosperma australe (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
- Rytidosperma biannulare
- Rytidosperma bipartitum - Leafy wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma bonthainicum
- Rytidosperma buchananii
- Rytidosperma caespitosum - Common wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma carphoides - Short wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma clavatum
- Rytidosperma clelandii
- Rytidosperma corinum
- Rytidosperma craigii
- Rytidosperma dendeniwae
- Rytidosperma diemenicum
- Rytidosperma dimidiatum
- Rytidosperma duttonianum - Brown-back wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma erianthum - Hill wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma exiguum
- Rytidosperma fortunae-hibernae
- Rytidosperma fulvum - Copper-awned wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma geniculatum - Kneed wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma gracile
- Rytidosperma horrens
- Rytidosperma indutum - Shiny wallaby-grass, yellow-anther wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma irianense
- Rytidosperma javanicum
- Rytidosperma laeve - Smooth wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma lechleri
- Rytidosperma lepidopodum - Scaly-foot wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma longifolium
- Rytidosperma maculatum
- Rytidosperma mamberamense
- Rytidosperma merum
- Rytidosperma monticola - Small-flower wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma montis-wilhelmi
- Rytidosperma nardifolium
- Rytidosperma nigricans
- Rytidosperma nitens
- Rytidosperma nivicola
- Rytidosperma nudiflorum
- Rytidosperma nudum
- Rytidosperma occidentale
- Rytidosperma oreoboloides
- Rytidosperma oreophilum
- Rytidosperma pallidum - Red-anther wallaby-grass, silvertop wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma paschale
- Rytidosperma pauciflorum
- Rytidosperma penicillatum - Weeping wallaby-grass, slender wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma petrosum
- Rytidosperma pictum
- Rytidosperma pilosum - Velvet wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma popinensis
- Rytidosperma pulchrum
- Rytidosperma pumilum
- Rytidosperma quirihuense
- Rytidosperma racemosum - Slender wallaby-grass, striped wallaby-grass, clustered wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma remotum
- Rytidosperma richardsonii
- Rytidosperma semiannulare - Wetland wallaby-grass, Tasmanian wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma setaceum - Bristly wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma setifolium
- Rytidosperma sorianoi
- Rytidosperma telematicum
- Rytidosperma tenue
- Rytidosperma tenuius - Purplish wallaby-grass
- Rytidosperma thomsonii
- Rytidosperma unarede
- Rytidosperma vestitum
- Rytidosperma vickeryae
- Rytidosperma violaceum
- Rytidosperma virescens
- Rytidosperma viride
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see Merxmuellera Tenaxia
- Rytidosperma davyi - Merxmuellera davyi
- Rytidosperma distichum - Tenaxia disticha
- Rytidosperma grandiflorum - Merxmuellera grandiflora
- Rytidosperma subulatum - Tenaxia subulata