# Zeugites

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{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
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| image = Zeugites americanus imported from iNaturalist photo 12058839 on 30 December 2023.jpg
| image_caption = ''Zeugites americanus''
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Zeugites
| authority = P.Browne
| type_species = ''[Zeugites americanus](/source/Zeugites_americanus)''
| type_species_authority = Willd.
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO"/>
| synonyms = * ''Senites'' <small>Adans., nom. superfl.</small>
* ''Calderonella'' <small>Soderstr. & H.F.Decker</small>
* ''Despretzia'' <small>Kunth</small> 
* ''Krombholzia'' <small>Rupr. ex E.Fourn.</small>
}}

'''''Zeugites''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of flowering plants in the family [Poaceae](/source/Poaceae). Its species are native to the [Caribbean](/source/Caribbean), [Mexico](/source/Mexico), [Central America](/source/Central_America), and [South America](/source/South_America).<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11267862#page/356/mode/1up Browne, Patrick. 1756. Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts, page 341]</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028406 Tropicos, ''Zeugites'' P. Browne ]</ref>

==Species==
Species of ''Zeugites'' include:<ref name="POWO"/>
* ''[Zeugites americanus](/source/Zeugites_americanus)'' <small>Willd.</small> - from Mexico to Bolivia, and [Greater Antilles](/source/Greater_Antilles) in Caribbean
* ''[Zeugites capillaris](/source/Zeugites_capillaris)'' <small>(Hitchc.) Swallen</small>  -  Jalisco, Colima, México State, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz (México).
* ''[Zeugites hackelii](/source/Zeugites_hackelii)'' <small>Swallen</small> - Michoacán, Sinaloa, Jalisco, México State (México).
* ''[Zeugites hintonii](/source/Zeugites_hintonii)'' <small>Hartley</small> - México State
* ''[Zeugites latifolius](/source/Zeugites_latifolius)'' <small>(E.Fourn.) Hemsl.</small> - Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Chiapas (México), and Honduras
* ''[Zeugites munroanus](/source/Zeugites_munroanus)'' <small>Hemsl.</small> - Guatemala, El Salvador; and Chiapas, Veracruz (México).
* ''[Zeugites panamensis](/source/Zeugites_panamensis)'' <small>Swallen</small> - Costa Rica, Panama
* ''[Zeugites pittieri](/source/Zeugites_pittieri)'' <small>Hack.</small>  - from Chiapas (México) to Panama
* ''[Zeugites sagittatus](/source/Zeugites_sagittatus)'' <small>Hartley</small> - México State
* ''[Zeugites smilacifolius](/source/Zeugites_smilacifolius)'' <small>Scribn.</small> - Michoacán, Morelos, México State, Guerrero, Jalisco (México).
* ''[Zeugites sylvaticus](/source/Zeugites_sylvaticus)'' <small>(Soderstr. & H.F.Decker) A.M.Soriano & Dávila</small> - Panama, Colombia

==References==
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<ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=331311-2 |title=''Zeugites'' P.Browne |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
* [http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00695.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]

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Category:Panicoideae
Category:Poaceae genera
Category:Grasses of North America
Category:Grasses of Mexico
Category:Grasses of South America
Category:Flora of Central America
Category:Flora of the Caribbean

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