{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Leptaspis |authority = R.Br.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2954367#page/79/mode/1up Brown, Robert 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 211] in Latin</ref> |type_species_authority = R.Br.<ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40004710 Tropicos, ''Leptaspis'' R. Br.]</ref> |type_species = ''Leptaspis banksii'' }}
'''''Leptaspis''''' is a genus of Paleotropical plants in the grass family, native to Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and a few islands of the western Pacific.<ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00335.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref><ref>Henty, E.E. (1969). A manual of the grasses of New Guinea: 1-215. Division of Botany, Dpt. of Forests, LAE, New Guinea.</ref><ref>Gilliland, H.B. (1971). A revised flora of Malaya 3: 1-319. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Singapore.</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>Turner, I.M. (1995 publ. 1997). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(2): 347-655.</ref>
; Species<ref name=m>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=422191 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> * ''Leptaspis angustifolia'' <small>Summerh. & C.E.Hubb.</small> - New Guinea, Fiji * ''Leptaspis banksii'' <small>R.Br.</small> - Queensland, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Taiwan, Sulawesi, Malaysia, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Thailand * ''Leptaspis zeylanica'' <small>Nees ex Steud.</small> - tropical Africa from Liberia to Ethiopia to Zimbabwe; Madagascar, Comoros, Sri Lanka, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
; Formerly included<ref name=m/> see ''Scrotochloa'' * ''Leptaspis manillensis - Scrotochloa urceolata'' * ''Leptaspis tararaensis - Scrotochloa tararaensis'' * ''Leptaspis urceolata - Scrotochloa urceolata''
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