''Austrofestuca'', called beach fescue, is a genus of

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

n and New Zealand plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

. The only accepted species is ''Austrofestuca littoralis'', native to seacoast regions in

(all states except Queensland) and New Zealand ( North I, South I, and Chatham Is).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> The genus used to include:Alexeev, Eugeniy Borisovich. 1985. Bjulleten Moskovskogo Obačestva Ispytatelej Prirody, Otdel Biologičeskij 90(5): 106–107, f. 1, 22–31 see '' Hookerochloa'' * ''Austrofestuca eriopoda'' – '' Hookerochloa eriopoda'' * ''Austrofestuca hookeriana'' – '' Hookerochloa hookeriana''

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Pooideae Grasses of Oceania Monotypic Poaceae genera Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière {{Pooideae-stub

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