{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Orinus |authority = Hitchc. |type_species = ''Orinus arenicola''<br>(syn of ''O. thoroldii)'' |type_species_authority = Hitchc. }}

'''''Orinus''''' is a genus of Asian plants in the grass family.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39917206#page/158/mode/1up Hitchcock, Albert Spear 1933. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 23: 135-136] descriptions in Latin and English in page 136, commentary in English; line drawing of ''Orinus arenicola'' on page 135</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00437.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref> The genome of ''O. kokonorica'' has been sequenced.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Qu |first1=Kunjing |last2=Liu |first2=Ai |last3=Yin |first3=Mou |last4=Mu |first4=Wenjie |last5=Wu |first5=Shuang |last6=Hu |first6=Hongyin |last7=Chen |first7=Jinyuan |last8=Su |first8=Xu |last9=Dou |first9=Quanwen |last10=Ren |first10=Guangpeng |date=2023-12-02 |title=A genome assembly for Orinus kokonorica provides insights into the origin, adaptive evolution and further diversification of two closely related grass genera |journal=Communications Biology |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |page=1223 |doi=10.1038/s42003-023-05620-5 |issn=2399-3642 |pmc=10693610 |pmid=38042963}}</ref>

; Species<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=426507 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=123165 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 464 <big>固沙草属</big> gu sha cao shu ''Orinus'' Hitchcock, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 23: 136. 1933]</ref> * ''Orinus alticulmus'' <small>L.B.Cai & Tong L.Zhang</small> - Qinghai * ''Orinus anomala'' <small>Keng f.</small> - Qinghai, Sichuan * ''Orinus kokonorica'' <small>(K.S.Hao) Keng</small> - Gansu, Qinghai * ''Orinus longiglumis'' <small>X.Su & L.B.Cai</small> - Tibet * ''Orinus thoroldii'' <small>(Stapf ex Hemsl.) Bor</small> - Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, Nepal, Uttarakhand, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uttar Pradesh * ''Orinus tibeticus'' <small>N.X.Zhao</small> - Tibet

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Category:Chloridoideae Category:Poaceae genera Category:Grasses of Asia Category:Grasses of China Category:Flora of Central Asia Category:Flora of temperate Asia Category:Taxa named by A. S. Hitchcock

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