Ventenata

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Ventenata dubia.jpg

|image_caption = Ventenata dubiaimage from http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=QK495F19H671801V2&identifier=0187 Icones et descriptiones Graminum austriacorum Click to view this book Author: Host, Nikolaus Thomas Publisher: Vindobonae : A. Schmidt, 1801-1809.

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|taxon = Ventenata

|authority = Koeler

|type_species = Ventenata avenacea
(syn of V. dubia)

|type_species_authority = Koeler

|synonyms_ref = Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

|synonyms =

• Gaudinopsis (Boiss.) Eig
• Heteranthus Borkh., rejected name
• Heterochaeta Besser not DC. 1836 (Asteraceae)
• Malya Opiz
• Pilgerochloa Eig

}}

Ventenata is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Europe, North Africa, and central + southwest Asia.Koeler, Georg Ludwig. 1802. Descriptio Graminum in Gallia et Germania 272[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40023688 Tropicos, Ventenata Koeler ] One species, Ventenata dubia, is considered an invasive weed in many places.[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9328,9329 Jepson Manual Treatment: V. dubia]{{Cite web |url=http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Ventenata_dubia&type=treatment |title=Grass Manual Treatment: V. dubia |access-date=2010-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608015554/http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Ventenata_dubia&type=treatment |archive-date=2012-06-08 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00678.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=ventenata Altervista Flora Italiana genere Ventenata ]

; Species

• Ventenata blanchei Boiss. - Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Israel
• Ventenata dubia (Leers) Coss. & Durieu - central Europe, Mediterranean, Ukraine, southern European Russia, Caucasus, Turkey, Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of North America[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Ventenata%20dubia.png Biota of North America 2013 county distribution map]
• Ventenata eigiana (H.Scholz & Raus) Dogan - Turkey
• Ventenata huber-morathii (Dogan) D.Heller - Turkey
• Ventenata macra (Steven) Balansa ex Boiss. - Greece, Crimea, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Caucasus, Cyprus
• Ventenata quercetorum Boiss. & Bal. - Turkey
• Ventenata sorgerae (Dogan) D.Heller - Turkey
• Ventenata subenervis Boiss. & Balansa - Turkey, islands of Eastern Aegean