{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Poaceae}} {{Speciesbox | display_parents = 4 | genus = Lasiurus (plant) | image = Lasiurus scindicus Henrard in 2009 by Antoine Foucart.jpg | parent_authority = Boiss. | species = scindicus | authority = Henrard | synonyms_ref = <ref name=c/> | synonyms = *''Saccharum hirsutum'' <small>Forssk.</small> *''Triticum aegilopoides'' <small>Forssk.</small> *''Rottboellia hirsuta'' <small>Vahl</small> *''Tripsacum hirsutum'' <small>(Vahl) Raspail</small> *''Coelorachis hirsuta'' <small>Brongn.</small> *''Ischaemum mastrucatum'' <small>Trin.</small> *''Tripsacum aegilopoides'' <small>(Forssk.) Kunth</small> *''Ischaemum hirsutum'' <small>Nees ex Steud.</small> *''Lasiurus hirsutus'' <small>Boiss.</small> *''Elionurus hirsutus'' <small>(Vahl) Munro ex Benth.</small> *''Manisuris hirsuta'' <small>Kuntze</small> *''Lasiurus ecaudatus'' <small>Satyanar. & Shank.</small> *''Lasiurus hirsutus'' subsp. ''arabicus'' <small>Chrtek</small> }}
'''''Lasiurus''''' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family, Poaceae,<ref name=KewPOWO>{{cite web|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:18353-1|title= Lasiurus Boiss.|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=n.d.|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date= August 26, 2020}}</ref> found primarily in arid regions.<ref>Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1, 4: 145–146</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00331.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref> The only known species is '''''Lasiurus scindicus''''', native to drier regions of northern Africa and southwestern Asia, from Mali, Morocco, and the Levant, all the way to India.<ref name=c>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=422053 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Bor, N.L. (1970). Flora Iranica 70: 1-573. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien.</ref><ref>Cope, T.A. (1982). Flora of Pakistan 143: 1-678. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.</ref><ref>Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.</ref><ref>Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.</ref><ref>Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.</ref><ref>Audru, J., Cesar, J. & Lebrun, J.-P. (1993). Les Plantes Vasculaires de la République de Djibouti. Flore Illustrée 2(2): 433-968. CIRAD, Départerment d'Elevage et de Médecine vétérinaire, Djibouti.</ref><ref>Thulin, M. (ed.) (1995). Flora of Somalia 4: i-ii, 1-298. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref><ref>Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.</ref><ref>Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A Handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref><ref>Jongbloed, M., Western, R.A. & Boer, B. (2000). Annotated Check-list for plants in the U.A.E.: 1-90. Zodiac Publishing, Dubai.</ref><ref>Danin, A. (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina area: 1-517. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=May 2024}}
;formerly included<ref name=c/> see ''Loxodera'' * ''Lasiurus epectinatus'' – ''Loxodera caespitosa'' * ''Lasiurus maitlandii'' – ''Loxodera ledermannii''
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Category:Panicoideae Category:Bunchgrasses of Africa Category:Bunchgrasses of Asia Category:Flora of North Africa Category:Flora of Western Asia Category:Grasses of India Category:Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier
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