''Rhizocephalus'' is a genus of plants in the grass family,

Poaceae 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 an ...

. The only known species is ''Rhizocephalus orientalis'', native to Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, Asiatic Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

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Pooideae Monotypic Poaceae genera Flora of Asia Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier {{Pooideae-stub