{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Uniola lappacea - Species graminum - Volume 3.jpg |image_caption = ''Centotheca lappacea'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Centotheca |authority = Desv. (1810) |synonyms_ref = <ref name=s>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451211 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50143451 Tropicos, Centotheca Desv.]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Ramosia'' <small>Merr.</small> * ''Centosteca'' <small>Desv., alternate spelling</small> }}
'''''Centotheca''''' is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family.<ref>Desvaux, Nicaise Augustin. 1810. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 2: 189</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00111.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref>
; Species<ref name=s/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Centotheca The Plant List search for ''Centotheca'']</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=106027 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 445 假淡竹叶属 jia dan zhu ye shu ''Centotheca'' Desvaux]</ref> * ''Centotheca lappacea'' <small>(L.) Desv.</small> - tropical western + central Africa; Madagascar, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, numerous islands of the Pacific aka หญ้า ฮี ยุ่ม ''hee yum grass'' [https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/427772/vaginal-fix-herb-a-feature-of-thai-health-expo in Thai] * ''Centotheca philippinensis'' <small>(Merr.) C.Monod</small> - Philippines, New Guinea * ''Centotheca uniflora'' <small>Swallen</small> - Vietnam
; formerly included<ref name=s/> {{hatnote|See ''Diplachne'' and ''Megastachya''}} * ''Centotheca madagascariensis - Megastachya madagascariensis'' * ''Centotheca malabarica - Diplachne fusca'' * ''Centotheca maxima - Megastachya mucronata'' * ''Centotheca mucronata - Megastachya mucronata'' * ''Centotheca owariensis - Megastachya mucronata'' * ''Centotheca urekana - Megastachya mucronata''
==See also== * List of Poaceae genera
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{Wikispecies-inline}} *{{Commons category-inline|Centotheca}}
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Category:Panicoideae Category:Poaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
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