{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Merxmuellera | authority = Conert | type_species_authority = (C.E.Hubb.) Conert. | type_species = ''Merxmuellera davyi'' }}
'''''Merxmuellera''''' is a genus of African grasses<ref>Conert, Hans Joachim. 1970. Senckenbergiana Biologica 51(1–2): 129-133</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017566 Tropicos, ''Merxmuellera'' Conert ]</ref> named for Hermann Merxmueller, a 20th-century German botanist and taxonomist who was an expert on African flora.
==Species== ''Merxmuellera'' contains the following species:<ref name=c>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=424121 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> * ''Merxmuellera ambalavaoensis'' <small>(A.Camus) Conert</small> - Madagascar * ''Merxmuellera davyi'' <small>(C.E.Hubb.) Conert</small> - Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Limpopo * ''Merxmuellera drakensbergensis'' <small>(Schweick.) Conert</small> - Cape Province, Lesotho, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo *''Merxmuellera grandiflora'' <small>(Hochst. ex A.Rich.) H.P.Linder</small> - Ethiopia * ''Merxmuellera macowanii'' <small>(Stapf) Conert</small> - Cape Province, Lesotho, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Madagascar * ''Merxmuellera stereophylla'' <small>(J.G.Anderson) Conert</small> - Lesotho, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo * ''Merxmuellera tsaratananensis'' <small>(A.Camus) Conert</small> - Madagascar
===Formerly included=== {{see also|Capeochloa|Ellisochloa|Geochloa|Tenaxia}} ''Merxmuellera'' formerly contained the following species:<ref name=c/> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''M. arundinacea - Capeochloa arundinacea'' * ''M. aureocephala - Tenaxia aureocephala'' * ''M. cincta - Capeochloa cincta'' * ''M. decora - Geochloa decora'' * ''M. disticha - Tenaxia disticha'' * ''M. dura - Tenaxia dura'' * ''M. guillarmodiae - Tenaxia guillarmodiae'' * ''M. lupulina - Geochloa lupulina'' * ''M. papposa - Ellisochloa papposa'' * ''M. rangei - Ellisochloa rangei'' * ''M. rufa - Geochloa rufa'' * ''M. setacea - Capeochloa setacea'' * ''M. stricta - Tenaxia stricta'' }}
==See also== *List of Poaceae genera
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Danthonioideae Category:Poaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Charles Edward Hubbard