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Cleistogenes
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Cleistogenes

Keng
Type species
Cleistogenes serotina
(L.) Keng.
Synonyms[1][2]

Kengia Packer

Cleistogenes is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family.[3]

The name Cleistogenes was for a time considered an invalidly published name synonymous with Kengia, but revisions to the Code of Nomenclature have reversed this situation. Cleistogenes the now the correct name.[4][5]

Species[1][6]
  1. Cleistogenes caespitosa Keng - China
  2. Cleistogenes festucacea Honda - China
  3. Cleistogenes gatacrei (Stapf) Bor - Afghanistan, Pakistan
  4. Cleistogenes hackelii (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
  5. Cleistogenes hancei Keng - China, Primorye
  6. Cleistogenes kitagawae Honda - Hebei, Liaoning, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Siberia
  7. Cleistogenes mucronata Keng f. - China
  8. Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi Tzvelev - Primorye
  9. Cleistogenes polyphylla Keng f. - China
  10. Cleistogenes ramiflora Keng f. & C.P.Wang - Inner Mongolia
  11. Cleistogenes serotina (L.) Keng - Eurasia from Spain to Kazakhstan
  12. Cleistogenes songorica (Roshev.) Ohwi - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  13. Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin. ex Ledeb.) Keng - China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Caucasus
formerly included[1]

see Orinus


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