''Themeda'' 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 ...

native to Asia, Africa,

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 ...

, and Papuasia. There are about 18Barkworth, M. E
''Themeda''.
Grass Manual. Flora of North America. to 26Potdar, G. G., et al. (2003)
A new species of ''Themeda'' Forssk. (Poaceae) from India.
''Kew Bulletin'' 58(1) 243-46. species, many of which are native to Southeast Asia. ; Species * '' Themeda anathera'' (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. - Afghanistan, Himalayas, Tibet * ''

Themeda arguens ''Themeda arguens'', commonly known as Christmas grass, is a species of grass. It is found in South Asia, Eastern Asia, Australia, the south-western Pacific and the Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Kara ...

'' (L.) Hack. - Christmas grass - Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, northern Australia * '' Themeda arundinacea'' (Roxb.) A.Camus - Indochina, southern China, Indian Subcontinent, Malaysia, Indonesia * '' Themeda avenacea'' (F. Muell.) Maiden & Betche - oat kangaroo grass -

* '' Themeda caudata'' (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) A.Camus - Indochina, southern China, Himalayas, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines * '' Themeda cymbaria'' Hack. - Tamil Nadu,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, Kerala * ''Themeda gigantea'' (Cav.) Hack. - Southeast Asia, Papuasia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu * ''Themeda helferi'' Hack. - Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Yunnan * ''Themeda hookeri'' (Griseb.) A.Camus - Tibet, Yunnan, eastern Himalayas * ''Themeda huttonensis'' Bor - Assam * ''Themeda idjensis'' Jansen - East Java, Java Timur, Bali * ''Themeda intermedia'' (Hack.) Bor - Southeast Asia, China, Indian Subcontinent, Papuasia, Queensland, Vanuatu * ''Themeda laxa'' (Andersson) A.Camus Indian Subcontinent * ''Themeda minor'' L.Liou - Tibet * ''Themeda mooneyi'' Bor - Odisha * ''Themeda novoguineensis'' (Reeder) Jansen - Papua New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Islands * ''Themeda palakkadensis'' Chorghe, Prasad & Lakshminarasimhan - Kerala * ''Themeda pseudotremula'' Potdar et al. - Maharashtra * ''Themeda quadrivalvis''- grader grass (L.) Kuntze - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Andaman Islands; naturalized in Socotra, South Africa, eastern Indochina, Papuasia, Queensland, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, various islands (Indian and Pacific Oceans, West Indies) * ''Themeda sabarimalayana'' Sreek. & V.J.Nair - India * ''Themeda saxicola'' Bor - Odisha * ''Themeda strigosa'' (Ham. ex Hook.f.) A.Camus - India, Bangladesh * ''Themeda tremula'' (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. - India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh * ''Themeda triandra'' Forssk.- kangaroo grass, red grass, ''rooigras'' - Africa (from Morocco to KwaZulu-Natal), Asia (from Yemen to Japan to Maluku (province), Maluku), Australia, New Guinea * ''Themeda trichiata'' S.L.Chen & T.D.Zhuang - Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan * ''Themeda unica'' S.L.Chen & T.D.Zhuang - Anhui, Zhejiang * ''Themeda villosa'' (Poir.) A.Camus - silky kangaroo grass, Lyon's grass - China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea * ''Themeda yunnanensis'' S.L.Chen & T.D.Zhuang - Yunnan ; Formerly includedKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> :See ''Elymandra, Germainia, Hyparrhenia, Iseilema''

References

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