{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Cryptochloa |authority = Swallen |type_species_authority = Swallen |type_species = ''Cryptochloa variana'' }}

'''''Cryptochloa''''' is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Mexico, Central America, and South America.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15998696#page/324/mode/1up Swallen, Jason Richard 1942. ''Cryptochloa''. In Contributions toward a flora of Panama VI, Collections chiefly by H. von Wedel in Boca del Toro. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 29(4): 317-322]</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00157.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora] </ref><ref>Soderstrom, T. R. 1982. New species of ''Cryptochloa'' and ''Piresia'' (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). Brittonia 34(2): 199–209</ref>

;Species<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451311 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Cryptochloa The Plant List search for ''Cryptochloa'']</ref> # ''Cryptochloa capillata'' <small>(Trin.) Soderstr.</small> - French Guiana, Brazil # ''Cryptochloa concinna'' <small>(Hook.f.) Swallen</small> - Colombia, Central America, southern Mexico # ''Cryptochloa decumbens'' <small>Soderstr. & Zuloaga</small> - Panama # ''Cryptochloa dressleri'' <small>Soderstr.</small> - Panama # ''Cryptochloa soderstromii'' <small>Davidse</small> - Panama # ''Cryptochloa strictiflora'' <small>(E.Fourn.) Swallen</small> - Central America, southern Mexico, Ecuador # ''Cryptochloa unispiculata'' <small>Soderstr.</small> - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil (Acre) # ''Cryptochloa variana'' <small>Swallen</small> - Honduras, Panama, Colombia

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Category:Bambusoideae genera Category:Grasses of North America Category:Grasses of South America Category:Flora of Central America Category:Grasses of Brazil Category:Grasses of Mexico Category:Bambusoideae

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