# Scrotochloa

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{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
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|taxon = Scrotochloa
|authority = [Judz.](/source/Emmet_Joseph_Judziewicz)
|type_species_authority = ([Roxb.](/source/Roxb.)) [Judz.](/source/Emmet_Joseph_Judziewicz)
|type_species = ''[Scrotochloa urceolata](/source/Scrotochloa_urceolata)''
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'''''Scrotochloa''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Asia](/source/Asia)n, [Australia](/source/Australia)n, and [Papuasia](/source/Papuasia)n plants in the [grass family](/source/Poaceae).<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13169000#page/313/mode/1up Judziewicz, Emmet Joseph. 1984.  Phytologia 56(4): 299-304] in English with Latin generic description; photo of specimen of ''Scrotochloa urceolata'' on page 304</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00702.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref><ref>[http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:378492# Atlas of Living Australia, ''Scrotochloa'' Judz.]</ref><ref>Soderstrom, T. R., R. P. Ellis & E. J. Judziewicz. 1987. The Phareae and Streptogyneae (Poaceae) of Sri Lanka: a morphological-anatomical study. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 65: 1–27.</ref>

The genus is closely related to ''[Leptaspis](/source/Leptaspis)'' and included inside that group by some authors.<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Scrotochloa The Plant List search for ''Scrotochloa'']</ref>

; Species<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=441717 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>
* ''[Scrotochloa tararaensis](/source/Scrotochloa_tararaensis)'' <small>(Jansen) Judz.</small> - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea), [Queensland](/source/Queensland)
* ''[Scrotochloa urceolata](/source/Scrotochloa_urceolata)'' <small>(Roxb.) Judz.</small> - [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea), [Queensland](/source/Queensland), [Solomon Islands](/source/Solomon_Islands), [Bismarck Archipelago](/source/Bismarck_Archipelago), [Philippines](/source/Philippines), [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia), [Java](/source/Java), [Borneo](/source/Borneo), [Lesser Sunda Islands](/source/Lesser_Sunda_Islands), [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam), [Thailand](/source/Thailand), [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar), [India](/source/India), [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka)

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