{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sehima nervosum imported from iNaturalist photo 229879186 on 3 January 2024.jpg | image_caption = ''Sehima nervosum'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Sehima | authority = Forssk. | type_species = ''Sehima ischaemoides'' | type_species_authority = Forssk. | synonyms_ref = <ref name=r/> | synonyms = * ''Hologamium'' <small>Nees</small> }}
'''''Sehima''''' is a genus of mostly Asian and African plants in the grass family.<ref name=q>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/738113#page/336/mode/1up Forsskål, Pehr. 1775. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica 178] in Latin</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034824 Tropicos, ''Sehima'' Forssk.]</ref>
The generic name is derived from the Arabic {{lang|ar|سحيم}} ''sæḥīm'' ('black'), local name of the type species in its native Yemen.<ref name=q/>
; Species<ref name=r>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=441811 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> * ''Sehima galpinii'' <small>Stent</small> - Angola, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Mpumalanga, Limpopo * ''Sehima ischaemoides'' <small>Forssk.</small> - drier parts of Asia and Africa from Cape Verde to Limpopo to India * ''Sehima nervosum'' <small>(Rottler) Stapf</small> - eastern Africa from Eritrea to Mozambique; southern Asia from Yemen to southern China to Java; New Guinea to northern Australia * ''Sehima notatum'' <small>(Hack.) A.Camus</small> - Uttar Pradesh * ''Sehima sulcatum'' <small>(Hack.) A.Camus -</small> Myanmar, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh
; formerly included<ref name=r/> see ''Andropogon Andropterum Eremochloa Ischaemum Pogonachne Thelepogon Triplopogon'' {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Sehima beccarii - Ischaemum beccarii'' * ''Sehima ciliare - Eremochloa ciliaris'' * ''Sehima elegans - Thelepogon elegans'' * ''Sehima racemosum - Pogonachne racemosa'' * ''Sehima ramosissimum - Triplopogon ramosissimus'' * ''Sehima spathiflorum - Triplopogon ramosissimus'' * ''Sehima textilis - Andropogon textilis'' * ''Sehima variegatum - Andropterum stolzii'' }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00576.htm Grassbase, the World Online Grass Flora: ''Sehima'']
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Category:Andropogoneae Category:Poaceae genera Category:Grasses of Africa Category:Grasses of Asia Category:Grasses of Oceania Category:Flora of the Afrotropical realm Category:Flora of the Indomalayan realm Category:Taxa named by Peter Forsskål
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