{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |image =Raddia brasiliensis - 05.jpg |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Raddia |authority = Bertol. 1819 not DC. 1824 nor Mazziari 1834 |type_species_authority = Bertol. |type_species = ''Raddia brasiliensis'' |synonyms_ref = <ref name=k>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=438986 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> |synonyms = ''Strephium'' <small>Schrad. ex Nees</small> }}

'''''Raddia''''' is a genus of South American plants in the grass family, most of the species found only in Brazil.<ref>Bertoloni, Antonio. 1819. Opuscoli scientifici d'una Società di professori della Pontifical Università di Bologna 3: 410</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00537.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref>

The genus was named for Italian botanist and herpetologist Giuseppe Raddi, 1770–1829.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Poaceae/Raddia_brasiliensis.html |title=Raddia brasiliensis |website=www.desert-tropicals.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010112161500/http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Poaceae/Raddia_brasiliensis.html |archive-date=2001-01-12}}</ref><ref>Longhi-Wagner. 2007. Synopsis Poacearum in Josephii Raddii Agrostografia brasiliense editarum. Kew Bulletin 62(3): 381–405</ref>

;Species<ref name=k/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Raddia The Plant List search for ''Raddia'']</ref><ref>Silva, C., M. Conde & H. M. Longhi-Wagner. 2012. Olyreae (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) da Marambaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Rodriguésia 63(5): 357–372</ref><ref>Renvoize, S. A. 1984. Grasses of Bahia 1–301. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew</ref><ref>Hitchcock, A. S. 1936. Manual of the grasses of the West Indies 1–439. United States Government Printing Office, Washington</ref><ref>Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas</ref> # ''Raddia angustifolia'' <small>Soderstr. & Zuloaga</small> - Bahia # ''Raddia brasiliensis'' <small>Bertol.</small> - Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Paraíba # ''Raddia distichophylla'' <small>(Steud. ex Nees) Chase</small> - Bahia # ''Raddia guianensis'' <small>(Brongn.) C.L.Hitchc.</small> - Trinidad and Tobago, Pará, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela (Carabobo, Yaracuy) # ''Raddia lancifolia'' <small>R.P.Oliveira & Longhi-Wagner</small> - Espírito Santo # ''Raddia megaphylla'' <small>R.P.Oliveira & Longhi-Wagner</small> - Espírito Santo, Bahia # ''Raddia portoi'' <small>Kuhlm.</small> - Bahia # ''Raddia soderstromii'' <small>R.P.Oliveira, L.G.Clark & Judz.</small> - Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, Sergipe # ''Raddia stolonifera'' <small>R.P.Oliveira & Longhi-Wagner</small> - Bahia

;formerly included<ref name=k/> see ''Arberella Crypsis Cryptochloa Piresia Raddiella'' {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Raddia aculeata - Crypsis aculeata'' * ''Raddia biformis - Piresia sympodica'' * ''Raddia capillata - Cryptochloa capillata'' * ''Raddia concinna - Cryptochloa concinna'' * ''Raddia costaricensis - Arberella costaricensis'' * ''Raddia malmeana - Raddiella malmeana'' * ''Raddia nana - Raddiella esenbeckii'' * ''Raddia strictiflora - Cryptochloa strictiflora'' * ''Raddia sympodica - Piresia sympodica'' }}

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Category:Bambusoideae genera Category:Grasses of South America Category:Grasses of Brazil Category:Bambusoideae Category:Taxa named by Antonio Bertoloni

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