{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ctenium aromaticum 1.jpg |image_caption = ''Ctenium aromaticum'' |display_parents = 3 |parent_authority = P.M.Peterson, Romasch. & Y.Herrera |taxon = Ctenium |authority = Panz. 1813 not C.E.O. Jensen 1923<ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Ctenium&commonname= Tropicos search for ''Ctenium'']</ref> |type_species = ''Ctenium carolinianum''<br>(syn of ''C. aromaticum)''<ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017716 Tropicos, ''Ctenium'' Panz.]</ref><ref name=j/> |type_species_authority = Panz. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=j>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451315 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Aplocera'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Campuloa'' <small>Desv.</small> * ''Campulosus'' <small>Desv.</small> * ''Monathera'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Monocera'' <small>Elliott</small> * ''Triatherus'' <small>Raf.</small> }}
'''''Ctenium''''' is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family.<ref>Panzer, Georg Wolfgang Franz 1813. Ideen zu einer Künftigen Revision der Gattungen der Gräser Gräs. 38, 61</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00158.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref>
; Species<ref name=j/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Ctenium The Plant List search for Ctenium]</ref> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Ctenium aromaticum'' <small>(Walter) Alph.Wood</small> - United States from Texas to New Jersey * ''Ctenium bahiense'' <small>Longhi-Wagner</small> - Bahia * ''Ctenium brachystachyum'' <small>(Nees) Kunth</small> - Brazil, Paraguay * ''Ctenium brevispicatum'' <small>J.G.Sm.</small> - Brazil * ''Ctenium canescens'' <small>Benth.</small> West Africa * ''Ctenium chapadense'' <small>(Trin.) Döll</small> - Brazil * ''Ctenium cirrhosum'' <small>(Nees) Kunth</small> - Brazil, Suriname * ''Ctenium concinnum'' <small>Nees</small> - Africa incl Madagascar * ''Ctenium concissum'' <small>Swallen</small> - Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia * ''Ctenium crista-castrensis'' <small>(Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen</small> - United States, Canada * ''Ctenium elegans'' <small>Kunth</small> - Africa * ''Ctenium floridanum'' <small>(Hitchc.) Hitchc.</small> - Georgia, Florida * ''Ctenium ledermannii'' <small>Pilg.</small> - central Africa * ''Ctenium longiglume'' <small>Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope</small> - Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia * ''Ctenium newtonii'' <small>Hack.</small> - Africa * ''Ctenium planifolium'' <small>(J.Presl) Kunth</small> - central + southern Mexico * ''Ctenium plumosum'' <small>(Hitchc.) Swallen</small> - western Mexico * ''Ctenium polystachyum'' <small>Balansa</small> - Brazil, Paraguay * ''Ctenium sesquiflorum'' <small>Clayton</small> - Guinea, Liberia * ''Ctenium villosum'' <small>Berhaut</small> - West Africa }}
; formerly included see ''Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon'' * ''Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus'' * ''Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon tenellus'' * ''Ctenium nukaviense - Dactyloctenium aegyptium'' * ''Ctenium rupestre - Enteropogon rupestris'' * ''Ctenium sechellense - Enteropogon sechellensis''
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