Chrysochloa

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Chrysochloa_annua_C_E_Hubb_nmnhbotany_10721901_NMNH-01165242.jpg |image_caption = ''Chrysochloa annua'' (now ''Chrysochloa subaequigluma'') |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Chrysochloa |authority = Swallen<ref name=GRIN>{{GRIN genus |name=''Chrysochloa'' |id=2569 |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref> |type_species = ''Bracteola lucida'' (syn of ''Chrysochloa subaequigluma'') |type_species_authority = Swallen<ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40008505 Tropicos, ''Chrysochloa'' Swallen ]</ref><ref>[http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art7 International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code)] see §7.3</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=POWO>{{cite POWO |title=''Chrysochloa'' Swallen |id=17750-1 |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref> |synonyms = * ''Bracteola'' Swallen 1933, not a valid name because it coincides with a technical term<ref>[http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art20 International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code)] see §20.2</ref> }}

'''''Chrysochloa''''' is a genus of African plants in the grass family Poaceae.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34599197#page/68/mode/1up Swallen, Jason Richard. 1941. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 54: 44]</ref><ref>Swallen, Jason Richard 1933. American Journal of Botany 20: 118</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00133.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref>

; Species<ref name=POWO/><ref>Zon, A. P. M. v. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 92–1(2): 1–557.</ref> * ''Chrysochloa orientalis'' (C.E.Hubb.) Swallen – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda * ''Chrysochloa subaequigluma'' (Rendle) Swallen – tropical Africa from Senegal to Malawi

== See also == * List of Poaceae genera

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Chloridoideae Category:Poaceae genera Category:Grasses of Africa