Urochondra

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Urochondra setulosa 369617251.jpg

| image_caption = Urochondra setulosa in India

| display_parents = 4

| genus = Urochondra

| parent_authority = C.E.Hubb.In: Hooker's Icones Plantarum 35: pl. 3457. 1947. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40022060 |title=Name - Urochondra C.E.Hubb. |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=March 15, 2010}}

| species = setulosa

| authority = (Trin.) C.E.Hubb.

| synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=449569 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

| synonyms =

• Vilfa setulosa Trin.
• Sporobolus setulosus (Trin.) A.Terracc.
• Crypsis setulosa (Trin.) Mez
• Heleochloa setulosa (Trin.) Blatt. & McCann
• Agrostis elatior Steud.
• Crypsis dura Boiss.
• Heleochloa dura (Boiss.) Boiss.
• Heleochloa dura subsp. kuriensis Vierh.
• Heterochloa dura (Boiss.) Balf.f.

}}

Urochondra is a genus of plants in the grass family.Hubbard, Charles Edward. 1947. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 35: plate 3457Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1840. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles. Seconde Partie: Sciences Naturelles 6(2): 55[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/25520413 Tropicos, Urochondra setulosa (Trin.) C.E. Hubb.] The only known species is Urochondra setulosa, native to northeastern Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Socotra) and southwestern Asia (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, northwestern India, and Sindh Province in Pakistan).[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-449569 The Plant List, Urochondra setulosa (Trin.) C.E.Hubb.] The species grows in coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and estuaries.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=220013977 Flora of Pakistan, Urochondra setulosa (Trin.) C.E. Hubbard ]