''Piptatherum'' is a genus of 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 ...

known as ricegrass. They are widely distributed across much of

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelago a ...

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

, and

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

. These are clumping perennial grasses with long, tapering leaf blades. ; SpeciesThe Plant List search for Piptatherum
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Achnatherum ''Achnatherum'' is a genus of plants which includes several species of needlegrass. Several needlegrass species have been switched between ''Achnatherum'' and genus ''Stipa''; taxonomy between the two closely related genera is still uncertain. ' ...

Arundinella Eriochloa Nassella Oryzopsis Piptatheropsis Piptochaetium Stipa ''

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3766923 Poaceae genera Grasses of Africa Grasses of Asia Grasses of Europe Grasses of North America Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois Pooideae