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. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass and wallaby grass. Australian species have since been reclassified into the genus ''

Rytidosperma ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Island).

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Danthonia annableae ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgra ...

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Danthonia araucana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgra ...

'' Phil. – Chile * ''

Danthonia boliviensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgra ...

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Danthonia × breviaristata ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgra ...

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Danthonia breviseta ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgra ...

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Danthonia cernua ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' Döll – Brazil * ''

Danthonia chaseana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Conert – Minas Gerais * ''

Danthonia chiapasensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia chilensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' É.Desv. – Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Is * ''

Danthonia cirrata ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia compressa ''Danthonia compressa'' is a species of grass known by the common names mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, and slender oatgrass. Distribution This bunchgrass is native to eastern North America, where it can be found in eastern Canada and the ...

'' Austin – mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, slender oatgrass – eastern North America from Georgia to Nova Scotia + Ontario * ''

Danthonia decumbens ''Danthonia decumbens'' (formerly ''Sieglingia decumbens'') is a species of grass commonly known as the heath grass, heath-grass, or staggers grass It is a tussock grass native to Europe and adjacent parts of Asia and North Africa. It may also be ...

'' (L.) DC. – common heath grass – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus * ''

Danthonia domingensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia holm-nielsenii ''Danthonia holm-nielsenii'' is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is found only in Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador ...

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Danthonia intermedia ''Danthonia intermedia'' is a species of grass known by the common names timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass, and mountain wild-oat grass. This clumping erect perennial grass is native to North America, where it is widespread across most of Ca ...

'' Vasey – timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass – western United States, Canada, Russian Far East * ''

Danthonia malacantha ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' (Steud.) Pilg. – Chile incl Juan Fernández Is * ''

Danthonia melanathera ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' (Hack.) Bernardello – Argentina * ''

Danthonia montevidensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Hack. & Arechav. – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay * ''

Danthonia parryi ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

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Danthonia rhizomata ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Swallen – Brazil, Uruguay * ''

Danthonia rugoloana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia secundiflora ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' J.Presl – from Mexico to Uruguay * ''

Danthonia sericea ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Nutt. – eastern + central United States * ''

Danthonia spicata ''Danthonia spicata'' is a species of grass known by the common name poverty oatgrass, or simply poverty grass. It is native to North America, where it is widespread and common in many areas.Alaska + Greenland to Veracruz * ''

Danthonia unispicata ''Danthonia unispicata'' is a species of grass known by the common name onespike oatgrass, or onespike danthonia. It is sometimes treated as a variety of ''Danthonia californica'', to which it is similar. It is native to western North America, w ...

'' (Thurb.) Munro ex Macoun – onespike oatgrass –

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Amphibromus ''Amphibromus'' is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. Most are known as swamp wallaby grass.Thieret, J. W''Amphibromus''. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.Astrebla'', ''

Chionochloa ''Chionochloa'' is a genus of tussock grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in New Zealand with one known species in New Guinea and another on Lord Howe Island (part of Australia). Some of the species are referred to as snowgrass. Most of ...

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Joycea ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Is ...

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Monachather ''Monachather'', common name mulga oats, is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus c ...

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Merxmuellera ''Merxmuellera'' is a genus of African grasses named for Hermann Merxmueller, a 20th century German botanist and taxonomist who was an expert on African flora. Species ''Merxmuellera'' contains the following species: * '' Merxmuellera ambalavao ...

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Notodanthonia ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Island). S ...

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Pentaschistis ''Pentaschistis'' is a genus of grass in the family Poaceae. It includes the following species: * ''Pentaschistis chrysurus'' * ''Pentaschistis dolichochaeta'' * ''Pentaschistis mannii ''Pentaschistis mannii'' is a species of grass in the fa ...

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Plinthanthesis ''Plinthanthesis'' is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family.Ausgrass2, Grasses of Aus ...

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Schismus ''Schismus'' is a genus of African and Eurasian plants in the grass family. Two species are naturalized in North America, where they are known as Mediterranean grass. ; Species * '' Schismus arabicus'' - Greece, North Africa, East Africa, Asia ...

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