''Podophorus'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

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 ...

. The only known species is ''Podophorus bromoides'', which was native to Robinson Crusoe Island in the South Pacific Ocean. This is one of the Juan Fernández Islands, part of the

Republic of Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. The plant was last collected in the wild in the mid-19th century and is now considered

. A genetic analysis of the type material found it to be most closely related to ''

Megalachne ''Megalachne'' is a genus of Chilean plants in the grass family, found only on the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile. A genetic analysis found it to be most closely related to the extinct '' Podopho ...

'', also endemic to the Juan Fernández archipelago. This clade was in turn found to be nested within a

paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...

'' Festuca'', most closely related to ''F. pampeana'' of South America.

References

Extinct flora of Oceania Pooideae Monotypic Poaceae genera Flora of the Juan Fernández Islands Plant extinctions since 1500 Robinson Crusoe Island {{Pooideae-stub