{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Aeluropus littoralis (Les Chalets Gruissan 14).JPG |image_caption = ''Aeluropus littoralis'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Aeluropus |authority = Trin. |type_species_authority = Trin. |type_species = ''Aeluropus laevis''<br>(syn of ''A. lagopoides)'' |synonyms_ref = <ref name=a>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=476456 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant families]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Calotheca'' <small>Spreng. 1817, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810 (syn of ''Briza)''</small> * ''Chamaedactylis'' <small>T.Nees</small> }}
'''''Aeluropus''''' is a genus of Eurasian and African plants in the grass family, found primarily in desert regions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/aeluropu.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references |accessdate=2009-08-19 |author=Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. |date=2008 |work=The Grass Genera of the World |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704202752/http://www.delta-intkey.com/grass/www/aeluropu.htm |archivedate=2008-07-04 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00009.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15353875#page/159/mode/1up Trinius, Carl Bernhard von 1820. Fundamenta agrostographiae, sive Theoria constructionis floris graminei; adjecta synopsi generum graminum hucusque cognitorum page 143] description in Latin</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15353875#page/241/mode/1up Trinius, Carl Bernhard von 1820. Fundamenta agrostographiae, sive Theoria constructionis floris graminei; adjecta synopsi generum graminum hucusque cognitorum plate XII (12)] line drawings of ''Aeluropus laevis'' (syn of ''A. lagopoides)''; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15353875#page/228/mode/1up captions on page 212]</ref>
; Species<ref name=a/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Aeluropus The Plant List search for Aeluropus]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=100671 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 458 <big>獐毛属</big> zhang mao shu ''Aeluropus'' Trinius, Fund. Agrost. 143. 1820. ]</ref><ref>[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Aeluropus Altervista Flora Italiana, genere ''Aeluropus'']</ref> * ''Aeluropus badghyzii'' <small>Tzvelev</small> - Turkmenistan * ''Aeluropus laciniatus'' <small>Khodash.</small> - Iran * ''Aeluropus lagopoides'' <small>(L.) Thwaites</small> - Mediterranean, Sahara, and Asia from Mauritania + Sicily to Kazakhstan + Nicobar Islands * ''Aeluropus littoralis'' <small>(Gouan) Parl.</small> - Mediterranean + Asia from Spain + Morocco to China * ''Aeluropus macrostachyus'' <small>Hack.</small> - Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan * ''Aeluropus pilosus'' <small>(X.L.Yang) S.L.Chen & X.L.Yang</small> - Xinjiang
; formerly included<ref name=a/> see ''Dactylis Odyssea'' * ''Aeluropus arabicus - Odyssea mucronata'' * ''Aeluropus mucronatus - Odyssea mucronata'' * ''Aeluropus pungens'' <small>(Vahl) Boiss 1884 not K.Koch 1848</small> - ''Odyssea mucronata'' * ''Aeluropus smithii - Dactylis smithii''
==See also== * List of Poaceae genera
==References== {{Reflist}}
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