Lepturidium
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''Lepturidium'' is a genus of Cuban 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 known species is ''Lepturidium insulare''. It is reported only from
Isla de la Juventud Isla de la Juventud (; en, Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Islan ...
(formerly called Isle of Pines), part of the Republic of Cuba.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Chloridoideae Endemic flora of Cuba Grasses of North America Monotypic Poaceae genera Isla de la Juventud Taxa named by A. S. Hitchcock {{Chloridoideae-stub